boozed; boozing
: to drink intoxicating liquor especially to excess
—often used in the phrase booze it up
: intoxicating drink
especially
: hard liquor
Examples of booze in a Sentence
Verb
He was out boozing with his friends.
he went out boozing with his friends on his 21st birthday
Noun
We bought some chips and booze for the party.
this will be a birthday party without booze
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Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
Weed’s true breakthrough won’t come from smoking, vaping, or even eating, but from beverages analogous to booze.
—Kate Bernot, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
Willing Davidson, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
And Belushi, who is nothing short of a revelation in Stewart’s feature directing debut, would adjust his register, finding the sadness drowning in a sea of booze and revealing the struggling family man hiding behind the prankster persona.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
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Verb
Aggie is boozed enough to think this is funny rather than disturbing.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
Weed’s true breakthrough won’t come from smoking, vaping, or even eating, but from beverages analogous to booze.
—Kate Bernot, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
Malcolm has an inchoate sense—heavily influenced, no doubt, by the spell cast by an attractive woman, drugs, and a gallon of booze—that his relationship with Violet lacks the honesty of Grant and Chelsea’s.
—Willing Davidson, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
And Belushi, who is nothing short of a revelation in Stewart’s feature directing debut, would adjust his register, finding the sadness drowning in a sea of booze and revealing the struggling family man hiding behind the prankster persona.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
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“Booze.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/booze. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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