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booze

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Etymology

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Alteration of bowse.

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booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes)

  1. (colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage (especially beer or hard liquor).
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
      The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.
    • 1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars
      She got caught between the shadows and the booze
      And she surely did know how to have the blues
    • 2025 February 2, Nadine Yousif, “Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur 'buy local' pledge”, in BBC News‎[1]:
      In some Canadian provinces […] American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday.
  2. (colloquial, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

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booze (third-person singular simple present boozes, present participle boozing, simple past and past participle boozed)

  1. (slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol.
    We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.
  2. (slang, transitive) To drink (an alcoholic beverage).

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