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noun

Definition of carouse

as in drunk

a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking the Old West custom of heading to the saloon at night for an all-out carouse and some poker playing

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verb

kə-ˈrau̇z

as in to drink

to take part in drunken revelry spent all of shore leave carousing with his mates

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But that doesn’t add much beyond three crusty Báthory ancestors carousing drunkenly in their coffins. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026 Many foreign attendees at San Fermín have no stomach for the spectacle and spend their early evenings carousing in local bars instead. — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025 In late March, a few hundred people descended on the Mall at Bay Plaza in the Bronx with young-looking shoppers carousing and running through the complex, based on a TikTok video. — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 28 May 2025 After all that carousing, Chalamet, 29, managed to show up all smiles on race day on Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium in MiamI Gardens. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for carouse

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Nothing that would actually stop a person, a child, a wheelchair or a stumbling drunk from going straight into the water.

— Joseph V. Sakran, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2026
Then she, once again, intimates that Shannon is a drunk, which makes Shannon storm off into the night.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

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After the usually chatty Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker went a full 24 hours without posting anything, many began to theorize Cyberleek’s spree was over, and they’d been shut down or caught after Take-Two’s relentless pursuit.

— Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Huang has led a far-reaching investment spree in recent years, as Nvidia works to maintain its central role in the artificial intelligence era.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of spree

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Right in the middle of cheering, reveling masses was MARTA — a connective system of veins that efficiently moved the happy throngs.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Mary Murphy, a young reporter from Queens, had been at Shea that night, reveling with her sisters in the upper loge section along the first-base line.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 31 July 2026

Definition of revel

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And Netflix — the company that upended the pay-TV model more than a decade ago with binge-watching, password-sharing, and no advertisements — has reversed course on many of its previous strategies in an effort to keep investors happy.

— Alex Sherman,Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026
The show nonetheless takes an unexpected direction that makes for an enjoyably low-key binge.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026

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