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booze.

Any alcoholic beverage.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/buːz/Received-Pronunciation/bʉwz/British, Southern, Standard/buz/US/bʉːz/Australia, New-Zealand

  1. Any alcoholic beverage.

    colloquial · uncountable

  2. Any alcoholic beverage. Any hard liquor.

    colloquial · sometimes · specifically · uncountable

  3. A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

    archaic · colloquial · countable
Where this word comes from

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

verb/buːz/Received-Pronunciation/bʉwz/British, Southern, Standard/buz/US/bʉːz/Australia, New-Zealand

  1. To drink alcohol.

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

  2. To drink (an alcoholic beverage).

    slang · transitive
Where this word comes from

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

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