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booze

sostantivoverbocorrente nei dialoghi

  • Regno Unito//buːz//
  • Regno Unito//bʉwz//
  • Stati Uniti//buz//
  • Australia//bʉːz//
  • Scozia//bʉz//

Any alcoholic beverage.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    Any alcoholic beverage.

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    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

    arcaicoA session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

Etimologia

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

verbo

  1. 1

    gergoTo 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

    gergoTo drink (an alcoholic beverage).

    It's worse than kerosene to boose.

Forme

plurale
boozes
passato
boozed
participio passato
boozed
participio presente
boozing
3ª persona singolare
boozes
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