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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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Others went very practical, like Kelly Rowland’s trip to the supermarket, or embraced their inner child, as Donald Glover and Tiffany Haddish did with their sugar sprees.

— Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
This spring, college hoops teams went on staggering spending sprees, with some individual players set to earn as much as entire teams did a season ago.

— Brendan Marks, New York Times, 26 July 2026

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At first, it was thought that over time, governments would want to allow growth to organically whittle down debt-to-income ratios, which is the ideal way to pay down massive peacetime spending and tax cut binges.

— Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026
Adulting right doesn’t mean giving up your late-night movie binges.

— Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 3 June 2026

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