booze

UK/buːz/

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British/bʉwz/

booze noun: any alcoholic beverage.

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Noun

booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes)

(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...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
- She got caught between the shadows and the booze
  And she surely did know how to have the blues1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars
Synonyms:

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

Verb

booze (third-person singular simple present boozes, present participle boozing, simple past and past participle boozed)

(intransitive, slang) To drink alcohol.
- We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.
- This is better than boozing in public houses.1884, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life
(slang, transitive) To drink (an alcoholic beverage).
- It's worse than kerosene to boose.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 62

Proper noun capitalized: Booze

Booze (plural Boozes)

A surname.

booze meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam

booze in Tamil

சாராயம், மது, மது அருந்து

booze in Marathi

any alcoholic beverage: दारू dārū

booze in Urdu

شراب

booze in Malayalam

drink, alcohol, alcoholic drink: മദ്യം, വീര, വാറ്റിയെടുത്ത വീര്യമേറിയ മദ്യം, പേത്തണ്ണീർ, ചാരായം, അർക്കം
drink (alcohol), tipple, imbibe: മദ്യപിക്കുക, കള്ളുകുടിക്കുക, കുപ്പിയെടുത്തു തുടങ്ങുക, മദ്യംസേവിക്കുക, ചാരായം കുടിക്കുക, കുടിക്കുക

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booze in Kannada: ಮದ್ಯಪಾನ, ಗುಂಡು ಹಾಕು
booze in Arabic: كُحُول kuḥūl, خَمْر ḵamr
booze in Thai: เหล้า lâo
Dzongkha: ཆང chang

Examples of booze in a sentence

As I booze cruised home from the function, I gazed gleefully at the beautiful rising sun.
Let's stop at the off-licence and load up on booze and snacks.
I'm sure he'll get home safe; he's quite the experienced booze cruiser. You wouldn't believe his record BAC.

All 40 example sentences with booze

Synonyms of booze

liquor[Appendix:Glossary
adult beverage
grog

Forms of booze

Noun
plural	boozes
alternative form	boose
Verb
third-person singular present	boozes
present participle	boozing
past participle	boozed
past	boozed
Proper noun
plural	Boozes

Origin of booze

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

Words formed from booze

Phrases with booze

Words that rhyme with booze

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Questions about booze

What does booze mean?: Booze means any alcoholic beverage.
What is booze in Tamil?: Booze in Tamil is சாராயம், மது, மது அருந்து. See Booze meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is booze?: Booze can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce booze?: Booze is pronounced /buːz/ (UK).
What is the plural of booze?: The plural of booze is boozes.

Words near booze in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: booze (page history and authors); Booze (page history and authors); booze (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); booze (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); booze (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); booze (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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