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booze
[ booz ]
/ buz /
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noun
any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.
a drinking bout or spree.
verb (used without object), boozed, booz·ing.
to drink alcohol, especially to excess: He continued to booze until his health finally gave out.
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Idioms about booze
booze it up, to drink heavily and persistently.
Origin of booze
1610–20; respelling of bouse2, reflecting one of its pronunciation variants
OTHER WORDS FROM booze
boozer, nounWords nearby booze
booty, booty call, bootylicious, boo-word, booyah, booze, booze cruise, boozed-up, booze hag, boozehound, boozer
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How to use booze in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for booze
booze
/ (buːz) informal /
noun
alcoholic drink
a drinking bout or party
verb
(usually intr) to drink (alcohol), esp in excess
Derived forms of booze
boozed, adjectiveboozing, nounWord Origin for booze
C13: from Middle Dutch būsen
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