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booze

/buːz/ noun

Categories: Food & DrinkRare Words

In Latin: tēmētum, ebriamen Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about booze at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. An alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented.

verb

  1. Consume alcohol.
    We were up drinking all night

Origin

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

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