booze

Etymology

Alteration of bowse.

noun

  1. (colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage. (Especially hard liquor.)
    She got caught between the shadows and the booze And she surely did know how to have the blues 1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars
  2. (colloquial, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

verb

  1. (slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol.
    We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.
    This is better than boozing in public houses. 1884, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life
  2. (slang, transitive) To drink (an alcoholic beverage).
    It's worse than kerosene to boose. 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 62

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