booze

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booze^¹

/buːz/ UK
/bʉwz/ British, Southern, Standard
/buz/ US
/bʉːz/ Australia, New Zealand
/bʉz/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like boos · Rhymes with -uːz

Where it comes from

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

noun boozes · boose

colloquial, uncountable Any alcoholic beverage. 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
Similar: liquor[Appendix:Glossary, adult beverage
colloquial, sometimes, specifically, uncountable Any hard liquor.
Similar: liquor[Appendix:Glossary, adult beverage
archaic, colloquial, countable A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

Similar: grog

verb boozes · boozing · boozed · boose

intransitive, slang To drink alcohol. We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.
slang, transitive To drink (an alcoholic beverage). It's worse than kerosene to boose.

Booze^²

proper noun Boozes

A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: strong drink, liquor, drink, spirits, hard liquor, john barleycorn, fuddle, hard drink, drinking, alcoholic, drunk, alcoholism, hooch, beer, beverage, bourbon

noun

Similar: grog

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noun any alcoholic beverage

Español	trago, aguardiente, chupe, copa, copete, bebercio
中文	酒 jiǔ
Português	bebida, birita
Français	bibine, picole
Deutsch	Schnaps, Fusel, Alkohol, Alkoholisches, Alk
Italiano	alcolici
Română	pileală, agheasmă, băutură, beutură
Русский	вы́пивка výpivka, бухло́ buxló
العربية	كُحُول kuḥūl, خَمْر ḵamr

verb slang:to drink alcohol

Español	escabiar, pimplarse
Français	picoler
Deutsch	saufen, bechern, picheln
Română	bețivi, pili, chercheli, aghesmui
Русский	буха́ть buxátʹ, сообрази́ть на трои́х soobrazítʹ na troíx

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@misc{booze_2026,
  title = {booze},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/booze},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}