booze

English

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Pronunciation

• enPR: bo͞oz, IPA: /buːz/, X-SAMPA: /bu:z/

  Homophones: boos

• Rhymes: -uːz

Etymology

Alteration of bowse.

Noun

booze (uncountable)

1. (slang) Any alcoholic beverage.

Synonyms

• grog; see also Wikisaurus:alcoholic beverage

Derived terms

Terms derived from "booze"

booze bus booze can

booze cruise boozehound

boozer

Translations

any alcoholic beverage

• Bulgarian: алкохолна напитка (bg) (alkocholna napitka)
• Czech: chlast (cs) m
• Dutch: drank (nl)
• Estonian: naps (et), kärakas (et), märjuke (et)
• Finnish: viina (fi)
• German: Schnaps (de) m
• Hungarian: pia (hu)
• Macedonian: пијачка (mk) (píjačka) f
• Portuguese: bebida (pt) f, birita (pt) f
• Romanian: pileală (ro)

• Russian: выпивка (ru) (výpivka) f, бухло (ru) (buχló) n (slang)
• Scottish Gaelic: deoch (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цуга (sh) (cuga) f

  Roman: cuga (sh) f

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wódka f

• Spanish: trago (es) m, aguardiente (es) m, (Mexico) chupe (es) m, copa (es) f, (Chile) copete (es) m

See also

• piss
• plonk

Verb

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 hungover.

Translations

slang:to drink alcohol

• Finnish: ryypätä (fi), dokata (fi)
• Jèrriais: riboter
• Russian: бухать (ru) (buhát')

• Serbo-Croatian: цугати (sh) (cugati)
• Swedish: supa (sv)
• Volapük: ludrinön (vo)