booze

noun

1. 1

   Any alcoholic beverage.

   [object Object]

   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 old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.

   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.

2. 2

   Any alcoholic beverage. Any hard liquor.

3. 3

   archaicA session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

verb

1. 1

   slangTo drink alcohol.

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

   This is better than boozing in public houses.

2. 2

   slangTo drink (an alcoholic beverage).

   It's worse than kerosene to boose.

Forms

plural

boozes

past tense

boozed

past participle

boozed

present participle

boozing

third person singular

boozes