booze

See also: Booze

English

Etymology

Alteration of bowse.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bo͞oz, IPA^(key): /buːz/

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  Homophone: boos

• Rhymes: -uːz

Noun

booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes)

1. (slang, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage.
2. (slang, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

Synonyms

• grog; see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

Derived terms

Terms derived from "booze"

• booze bus
• booze can

• booze cruise
• boozehound

• boozer

Translations

any alcoholic beverage

• Belarusian: тру́нак m (trúnak)
• Bulgarian: алкохолна напитка (alkoholna napitka)
• Czech: chlast (cs) m
• Dutch: drank (nl)
• Estonian: naps, kärakas, märjuke
• Faroese: sprutt n
• Finnish: viina (fi)
• French: bibine (fr)
• Georgian: დასალევი (dasalevi), სასმელი (ka) (sasmeli)
• German: Schnaps (de) m, Fusel (de) m, Alkohol (de) m, Alkoholisches n, Alk (de) m
• Hungarian: pia (hu)
• Italian: alcolici (it) m pl
• Kyrgyz: спирт ичимдиги (ky) f (spirt içimdigi), ичүү (ky) n (içüü)
• Macedonian: пи́јачка f (píjačka)

• Navajo: yáadidahígíí
• Polish: procent (pl) (colloquial), trunek (pl) m, coś mocniejszego (colloquial), małe co nieco (pl) (colloquial), coś niecoś
• Portuguese: bebida (pt) f, birita (pt) f
• Romanian: pileală (ro)
• Russian: вы́пивка (ru) f (výpivka), бухло́ (ru) n (buxló) (slang)
• Scottish Gaelic: deoch f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цуга f

  Roman: cuga (sh) f

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wódka f

• Spanish: trago (es) m, aguardiente (es) m, (Mexico) chupe (es) m, copa (es) f, (Chile) copete (es) m, bebercio m (Spain, colloquial)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: ви́пивка f (výpyvka), бухло́ n (buxló) (slang)

See also

• piss
• plonk

Verb

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

1. (slang) To drink alcohol.

   We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.

   • Hugh Reginald Haweis

     This is better than boozing in public houses.

Translations

slang:to drink alcohol

• Finnish: ryypätä (fi), dokata (fi), vetää kännit, vetää lärvit
• German: saufen (de), bechern (de), picheln (de)
• Kyrgyz: ич- (iç-)
• Norman: riboter
• Polish: tankować (pl), urzynać się, grzać (pl), golić (pl), ciągnąć (pl), doić (pl), trąbić (pl), gazować (pl), zalewać się (pl), chlusnąć (pl) impf

• Russian: буха́ть (ru) (buxátʹ), сообрази́ть на трои́х (soobrazítʹ na troíx) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian: цугати, cugati
• Swedish: supa (sv)
• Volapük: ludrinön (vo)
• Yiddish: זויפן‎ (zoyfn)