booze

See also: Booze

English

Etymology

Alteration of bowse.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bo͞oz, IPA^(key): /buːz/

• Audio (AU):

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  Homophone: boos

• Rhymes: -uːz

Noun

booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes)

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

Synonyms

• grog; see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

Derived terms

Terms derived from "booze"

• booze bus
• booze can

• booze cruise
• boozehound

• boozer

Translations

any alcoholic beverage

• Belarusian: тру́нак m (trúnak)
• Bulgarian: алкохолна напитка (alkoholna napitka)
• Czech: chlast (cs) m
• Dutch: drank (nl)
• Estonian: naps, kärakas, märjuke
• Faroese: sprutt n
• Finnish: viina (fi)
• French: bibine (fr)
• Georgian: დასალევი (dasalevi), სასმელი (ka) (sasmeli)
• German: Schnaps (de) m, Fusel (de) m, Alkohol (de) m, Alkoholisches n, Alk (de) m
• Hungarian: pia (hu)
• Italian: alcolici (it) m pl
• Kyrgyz: спирт ичимдиги (ky) f (spirt icimdigi), ичүү (ky) n (icüü)
• Latin: tēmētum n, ebriamen n
• Macedonian: пи́јачка f (píjačka)
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• Navajo: yáadidahígíí
• Polish: procent (pl) (colloquial), trunek (pl) m, coś mocniejszego (colloquial), małe co nieco (pl) (colloquial), coś niecoś
• Portuguese: bebida (pt) f, birita (pt) f
• Romanian: pileală (ro)
• Russian: вы́пивка (ru) f (výpivka), бухло́ (ru) n (buxló) (slang)
• Scottish Gaelic: deoch f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цуга 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, bebercio m (Spain, colloquial), priva (es) f (Spain, slang, uncountable)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: ви́пивка f (výpyvka), бухло́ n (buxló) (slang)

See also

• piss
• plonk

Verb

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.

Translations

slang:to drink alcohol

• Finnish: ryypätä (fi), dokata (fi), vetää kännit, vetää lärvit
• German: saufen (de), bechern (de), picheln (de)
• Kyrgyz: ич- (ic-)
• Norman: riboter
• Polish: tankować (pl), urzynać się, grzać (pl), golić (pl), ciągnąć (pl), doić (pl), trąbić (pl), gazować (pl), zalewać się (pl), chlusnąć (pl) impf
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• Russian: буха́ть (ru) (buxátʹ), сообрази́ть на трои́х (soobrazítʹ na troíx) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian: цугати, cugati (sh)
• Swedish: supa (sv)
• Volapük: ludrinön (vo)
• Yiddish: זויפן (zoyfn)