boozed


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booze

 (bo͞oz) Slang
n.
1.
a. Hard liquor.
b. An alcoholic beverage.
2. A drinking spree.
intr.v. boozed, booz·ing, booz·es
To drink alcoholic beverages excessively or chronically.
[Alteration of obsolete bouse, from Middle English bousen, to drink to excess, from Middle Dutch būsen.]
booz′er n.
booz′i·ly adv.
booz′y adj.
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boozed

adjective
Slang. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor:
besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy.
Informal: cockeyed, stewed.
Slang: blind, bombed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked.
Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in the wind.
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boozed(-up)

adj (inf) → blau (inf), → alkoholisiert (inf)
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