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noun

plural of carouse

as in drunks

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

present tense third-person singular of carouse

as in drinks

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

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Noun

For speeders, drunks, reckless drivers and the like.

— Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 25 June 2026
This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots.

— Kyle Wagner, New York Daily News, 3 June 2026

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Verb

At one point, Jiavani, alone in Room 1 for a round of Count the Rice, just dumps all the rice into her Room 2 mocktail and drinks it.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 July 2026
Some of the signature drinks on the menu include an iced pistachio latte, an iced Turkish coffee and an iced rose latte.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026

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Singer Bradley Nowell drunk-steered his band through sordid anthems, crashing through references to classic ska and dancehall songs, shouting out Rudimentary Peni and Geto Boys, and re-setting the murder ballads and drug sprees of outlaw country in suburban California.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
The surge in pink slips started in 2023, when companies that had gone on hiring sprees during the COVID-19 pandemic began to cut back.

— Lily Wright, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026

Definition of sprees

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Adulting right doesn’t mean giving up your late-night movie binges.

— Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 3 June 2026
In 1945, Claire and Frank finally take a real honeymoon in Inverness, where Claire basically binges info on Scottish Highlander history and the Battle of Culloden thanks to Frank nerding out.

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026

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