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booze
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun booze has 1 sense
- booze(n = noun.food) hard drink, hard liquor, john barleycorn, liquor, spirits, strong drink - an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented; Array is a kind of alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant
has particulars: aqua vitae, ardent spirits, akvavit, aquavit, arak, arrack, bitters, brandy, gin, ouzo, rum, schnapps, schnaps, mescal, tequila, vodka, whiskey, whisky, firewater, lacing
Derived forms verb booze1, adjective boozy1
Verb booze has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
booze, v. i. [D. buizen; akin to G. bausen, and perh. fr. D. buis tube, channel, bus box, jar.].
To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. Landor. [1913 Webster]
"This is better than boozing in public houses."
[1913 Webster]
booze, n.
- A carouse; a drinking. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- any alcoholic beverage, especially a strong beverage such as whiskey. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
booze, n. & v. colloq.
--n.
1 alcoholic drink.
2 the drinking of this (on the booze).
--v.intr. drink alcoholic liquor, esp. excessively or habitually.
--n.
1 alcoholic drink.
2 the drinking of this (on the booze).
--v.intr. drink alcoholic liquor, esp. excessively or habitually.
Idiom
booze-up sl. a drinking bout.
Etymology
earlier bouse, bowse, f. MDu. busen drink to excess
THESAURUS
booze
John Barleycorn, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, bat, bender, beverage, bib, brannigan, brew, bum, carouse, chug, chug-a-lug, drain the cup, drink, drink in, drink off, drink to, drink up, drunk, firewater, grog, guzzle, hard liquor, hooch, imbibe, inebriant, intoxicant, intoxicating liquor, jag, juice, liquor, liquor up, little brown jug, lush, mountain dew, pledge, poison, potable, potation, pull, punch bowl, quaff, raise the elbow, rum, sauce, schnapps, sip, soak, social lubricant, souse, spirits, strong drink, strong waters, suck, suck in, suckle, sup, swig, swill, tank up, the Demon Rum, the bottle, the cup, the flowing bowl, the luscious liquor, the ruddy cup, tipple, toast, toss down, toss off, toxicant, wash down, water of life, whiskey, white lightning, white muleROGET THESAURUS
booze
Drunkenness
VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.
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