booze

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

booze, v. i. [D. buizen; akin to G. bausen, and perh. fr. D. buis tube, channel, bus box, jar.].

 To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.  Landor.  [1913 Webster]
"This is better than boozing in public houses."  [1913 Webster]

booze, n. 

•  A carouse; a drinking.  Sir W. Scott.  [1913 Webster]
•  any alcoholic beverage, especially a strong beverage such as whiskey.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

booze, n. & v. colloq.
--n.
1 alcoholic drink.
2 the drinking of this (on the booze).
--v.intr. drink alcoholic liquor, esp. excessively or habitually.

Idiom

booze-up sl. a drinking bout.

Etymology

earlier bouse, bowse, f. MDu. busen drink to excess

THESAURUS

booze

John Barleycorn, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, bat, bender, beverage, bib, brannigan, brew, bum, carouse, chug, chug-a-lug, drain the cup, drink, drink in, drink off, drink to, drink up, drunk, firewater, grog, guzzle, hard liquor, hooch, imbibe, inebriant, intoxicant, intoxicating liquor, jag, juice, liquor, liquor up, little brown jug, lush, mountain dew, pledge, poison, potable, potation, pull, punch bowl, quaff, raise the elbow, rum, sauce, schnapps, sip, soak, social lubricant, souse, spirits, strong drink, strong waters, suck, suck in, suckle, sup, swig, swill, tank up, the Demon Rum, the bottle, the cup, the flowing bowl, the luscious liquor, the ruddy cup, tipple, toast, toss down, toss off, toxicant, wash down, water of life, whiskey, white lightning, white mule

ROGET THESAURUS

booze

Drunkenness

VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.