carouse 1 of 2

noun

Definition of carousenext
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 How to pronounce carouse (audio)
as in to drink
to take part in drunken revelry spent all of shore leave carousing with his mates

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Recent Examples of carouse
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carouse
  1. drunk
  2. drink
  3. spree
  4. revel
  5. binge
Noun
  • Many years ago, before drunk-driving charges were euphemized as driving while intoxicated, Dan Marino liked to imbibe a little.
    — Armando Salguero, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
  • Wallen specializes in whiskey-drunk seductions to skeptical girls who can’t resist his charms.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
Definition of drunk
Verb
  • The result is great for work, drinks with the girls, and dinner reservations alike.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Jennifer Messemer-Skold, the communications director for Miami-Dade Water and Sewer, said the department’s stance is that the county’s tap water meets all current requirements and residents don’t need a filter to be drinking high quality water.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of drink
Noun
  • Olive and Nikki are two of four Girl Scouts whose six-week selling spree is followed in Cookie Queens.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Valeria Mongelli / Anadolu via Getty Images The previous year, a former police officer killed 36 people during a three-hour shooting and stabbing spree in the country’s northeast.
    — Nat Sumon, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of spree
Verb
  • 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
Noun
  • The show nonetheless takes an unexpected direction that makes for an enjoyably low-key binge.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
  • But unlike prior seasons, this time​ the series drops all episodes at once, giving the franchise its first true binge release after two seasons of weekly rollouts.
    — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of binge

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