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booze

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Etymology

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Alteration ofbowse.

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Noun

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booze (countable anduncountable,pluralboozes)

  1. (colloquial, uncountable) Anyalcoholicbeverage (especially beer or hard liquor).
    • 1953,Samuel Beckett,Watt,[Paris]:Olympia Press,→OCLC:
      The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the oldbooze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.
    • 1995,Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" onBetween the Wars
      She got caught between the shadows and thebooze
      And she surely did know how to have the blues
    • 2025 February 2, Nadine Yousif, “Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur 'buy local' pledge”, inBBC News[1]:
      In some Canadian provinces […] Americanbooze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday.
  2. (colloquial, countable, archaic) A session of drinkingalcohol; a drinking party.

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any alcoholic beverage

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Verb

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booze (third-person singular simple presentboozes,present participleboozing,simple past and past participleboozed)

  1. (slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol.
    We were out all nightboozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.
  2. (slang, transitive) To drink (an alcoholic beverage).

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Translations

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slang:to drink alcohol
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