booze

C2+ Topic:Food & Drink
US /buz/ UK /buːz/
noun verb

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    alcoholic drink; to drink alcohol heavily

    They brought plenty of booze to the party.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · alcoholic drink; to drink... liquoralcoholdrinkspiritsgroghoochtipple
Word family
Derived forms boozerboozybooze-up

Etymology

From Middle English bouse, bousen ('to drink to excess'), from Middle Dutch būsen ('to drink heavily'), of Germanic origin.

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