/buːz/
OriginOriginally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.
- colloquial, uncountableAny alcoholic beverage.
“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”
“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”
“In some Canadian provinces […] American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday.”
- colloquial, sometimes, specifically, uncountableAny hard liquor.
- archaic, colloquial, countableA session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.
- intransitive, slangTo drink alcohol.
“We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.”
“This is better than boozing in public houses.”
- slang, transitiveTo drink (an alcoholic beverage).
“It's worse than kerosene to boose.”
Formsboozes(plural) · boose(alternative) · boozes(present, singular, third-person) · boozing(participle, present) · boozed(participle, past) · boozed(past) · Boozes(plural)