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booze

5 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) booze (verb)
  2. 2) booze (noun)
  3. boose (noun)
  4. booze fighter (noun)
  5. booze-up (noun)

1booze

verb \ˈbüz\
boozedbooz·ing

Definition of BOOZE

intransitive verb
: to drink intoxicating liquor especially to excess —often used in the phrase booze it up
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Examples of BOOZE

  1. He was out boozing with his friends.
  2. <he went out boozing with his friends on his 21st birthday>

Origin of BOOZE

Middle English bousen, from Middle Dutch būsen
First Known Use: 14th century

Related to BOOZE

Synonyms: bib, drink, guzzle, liquor (up), lush (up) [slang], soak, tipple
Related Words: carouse, revel; imbibe, nip
Near Antonyms: abstain
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Other Alcoholic Beverage Terms

finish, gimlet, mull, sake, setup, sommelier, syllabub, vintner, wassail

Rhymes with BOOZE

blues, bruise, choose, cruise, cruse, Druze, flews, fuse, lose, Meuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, roose, ruse, schmooze, snooze, trews, use, whose

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