booze

== English == === Alternative forms === boose === Etymology === Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse. === Pronunciation === enPR: bo͞oz, IPA(key): /buːz/ Homophone: boos Rhymes: -uːz === Noun === booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes) (colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage. Synonyms: liquor (broad sense), adult beverage Hypernyms: beverage, drink (broad sense) 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 (colloquial, uncountable, sometimes specifically) Any hard liquor. Synonym: liquor (narrow sense) Hypernyms: liquor (broad sense), booze (broad sense), adult beverage, drink (narrow sense) < beverage, drink (broad sense) (colloquial, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party. ==== Synonyms ==== grog; see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== piss plonk === Verb === booze (third-person singular simple present boozes, present participle boozing, simple past and past participle boozed) (slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol. (slang, transitive) To drink (an alcoholic beverage). ==== Derived terms ==== outbooze ==== Translations ==== == Dutch == === Adjective === booze obsolete spelling of boze