booze

Alteration of bowse.

• enPR: bo͞oz, IPA^(key): /buːz/

  Homophones: boos

• Rhymes: -uːz

booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes)

1. (slang, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage.
2. (slang, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

• grog; see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

• piss
• plonk

booze (third-person singular simple present boozes, present participle boozing, simple past and past participle boozed)

1. (slang) To drink alcohol.

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

   • Hugh Reginald Haweis

     This is better than boozing in public houses.