Booze \Booze\ (b[=oo]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Boozed} (b[=oo]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Boozing}.] [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. [Written also {bouse}, and {boose}.] --Landor.
This is better than boozing in public houses. --H. R. Haweis.
Booze \Booze\, n. 1. A carouse; a drinking. --Sir W. Scott.
2. any alcoholic beverage, especially a strong beverage such as whiskey. [PJC]
Now, he's striving to be a model of rectitude after a life of booze and women.
At college football games, it isn't unusual for campus police to frisk students for booze or even drugs.
They fill in details to such questions as: What kind of booze does Fred G. drink?
They've been unlucky in love and had their problems with booze, but George Peppard and Ernest Hemingway found each other, and now Peppard is bringing Hemingway back home.
Here is her how-to guide for slipping into swank parties without an invitation and enjoying a free evening of booze, food and schmoozing with big-name guests.
Now he just looks weary, slowed down by booze and the extra weight he's carrying on his bantam frame.
Previously, customers had to take their own brown bags of booze or wine or buy little bottles of the sort served on airplanes at a state kiosk on the premises.
Now people cut out themes and cabarets, and after a certain point the guests have to pay for their own booze.' In some sectors an extravagant Christmas party continues to be justified as a status symbol and a display of creative skills.
But instead of busting up saloons, the 500 delegates at the group's 116th annual convention have set their sights on the classroom, hoping to steer youngsters away from booze as well as drugs and alcohol.
One of the silent screen's most famous comics, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, was charged with murder when a 25-year-old starlet fell ill during a hotel booze party and died several days later.
"They didn't allow booze in the stadium, so we'd go there the night before and bury bottles of Jim Beam.
Mary Poniatowsky, Baltimore, said "I had a beautiful time" even though she is a teetotaler and didn't drink any of the free booze cruise officials offered.
Phillip Davey is forsaking booze for drugs.
Makers of everything from beer, booze and ice cream rake in dough on it.
"I'm just tired of reading, `Just say no to drugs and say no to booze.'
No booze!" was the residents' rallying cry at a recent meeting.
"Sure, some would spend it all on hookers, drugs or booze.
The arguments for upmarket booze brands cascading through developing countries also do not look as compelling as they did in the gung-ho 1980s.