carousing

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ

Adjective

carousing (comparative more carousing, superlative most carousing)

1. Engaged in or associated with the act of carousing.
   • 1833, John Towne, Service Afloat, page 181:

     I remember I was once of a party of between twenty and thirty officers, from a squadron of four or five line-of-battle ships, and some smaller vessels, which met together at a tavern at St. Pierre's, Martinico, when a carousing scene took place, so characteristically unique, that it would require the pen of Scott, or the pencil of Cruikshank , to do it justice.

   • 2009, Randall Collins, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory, page 256:

     A carousing zone is a place where the ritualism of generating antinomian excitement prevails and may even be institutionalized.

   • 2010, Avron Boretz, Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters:

     A carousing group is almost always exclusively made up of men who are, more often than not, close in age, social position, and economic status.

Derived terms

• carousingly

 

Verb

carousing

1. present participle and gerund of carouse

Noun

carousing (plural carousings)

1. carousal

   the wild carousings of drunken revellers