booze

plural boozes · alternative boose

1. colloquialuncountableAny alcoholic beverage.

   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

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   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.

   1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

   In some Canadian provinces […] American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday.

   2025 February 2, Nadine Yousif, “Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur 'buy local' pledge”, in BBC News

   Synonyms: liquor[Appendix:Glossary, adult beverage

   1. colloquialsometimesspecificallyuncountableAny hard liquor.

      Synonyms: liquor[Appendix:Glossary, adult beverage, liquor[Appendix:Glossary

2. archaiccolloquialcountableA session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

present singular third person boozes · participle present boozing · participle past boozed · past boozed · alternative boose

1. intransitiveslangTo drink alcohol.

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

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   This is better than boozing in public houses.

   1884, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life

2. slangtransitiveTo drink (an alcoholic beverage).

   It's worse than kerosene to boose.

   1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 62

plural Boozes

1. A surname.