booze
[ booz ]
/ buz /
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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Nearby words
bootstraps, boottopping, booty, booty call, bootylicious, booze, booze cruise, booze hag, booze-up, boozed, boozed-up
Idioms
booze it up, to drink heavily and persistently.
Origin of booze
1610–20; respelling of bouse2, reflecting one of its pronunciation variants
Related formsbooz·er, noun
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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 Formsboozed, adjectiveboozing, noun
Word Origin for booze
C13: from Middle Dutch būsen
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Word Origin and History for booze
booze
by 1821, perhaps 1714; probably originally as a verb, "to drink a lot" (1768), variant of Middle English bouse (c.1300), from Middle Dutch busen "to drink heavily," related to Middle High German bus (intransitive) "to swell, inflate," of unknown origin. The noun reinforced by name of Philadelphia distiller E.G. Booze. Johnson's dictionary has rambooze "A drink made of wine, ale, eggs and sugar in winter time; or of wine, milk, sugar and rose-water in the summer time." In New Zealand from c.World War II, a drinking binge was a boozeroo.
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