carousing

comparative more carousing · superlative most carousing

1. Engaged in or associated with the act of carousing.

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

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

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   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.

   1833, John Towne, Service Afloat, page 181

   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.

   2010, Avron Boretz, Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of carouse

plural carousings

1. carousal

   the wild carousings of drunken revellers