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booze cruise

booze cruise noun: a brief trip from Britain to France or Belgium in order to buy alcohol (or tobacco) in bulk quantities without paying excise duty.

Noun

booze cruise (plural booze cruises)

  1. (UK) A brief trip from Britain to France or Belgium in order to buy alcohol (or tobacco) in bulk quantities without paying excise duty.
  2. (Australia, US) A recreational trip on a cruise ship or boat usually tailored to young people, with the expectation of heavy consumption of alcoholic beverages.
    • I was still a little tipsy, see, because Tony proposed to me on a booze cruise. You know a booze cruise? That′s where they take a fishing boat and wash all the fish guts off of it at night and turn it into a party boat.1998 November, Queen City Chronicle: Wedding Belles, Cincinnati Magazine, page 13
    • “Goddamnit, Petey, you know I hate booze cruises at the best of times. A bunch of drunken assholes that make a piss-up at home look like a Tupperware Party.”2004, Joseph D. Oliver, Nancy E. Oliver, On the Rebound, page 108

Verb

booze cruise (third-person singular simple present booze cruises, present participle booze cruising, simple past and past participle booze cruised)

  1. (Internet, humorous) to drive under the influence of alcohol
    • As I booze cruised home from the function, I gazed gleefully at the beautiful rising sun.

Forms of booze cruise

Noun
pluralbooze cruises
Verb
third-person singular presentbooze cruises
present participlebooze cruising
past participlebooze cruised
pastbooze cruised

Questions about booze cruise

What does booze cruise mean?
Booze cruise means a brief trip from Britain to France or Belgium in order to buy alcohol (or tobacco) in bulk quantities without paying excise duty.
What part of speech is booze cruise?
Booze cruise can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of booze cruise?
The plural of booze cruise is booze cruises.

Words near booze cruise in the dictionary

  1. booze barons
  2. booze bus
  3. booze buses
  4. booze can
  5. booze cans
  6. booze cruise
  7. booze cruiser
  8. booze cruisers
  9. booze cruises
  10. booze cruising
  11. booze fighter

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