booze

[ booz ]
/ buz /
Informal.
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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 for 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

booz·er, noun

Words nearby booze

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Words related to booze

alcohol, sauce, cocktail, hootch, hooch

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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, noun

Word Origin for booze

C13: from Middle Dutch būsen
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