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booze

(bo͞oz) Slang

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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boozing - the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall"

crapulence, drink, drinking, drunkenness

intemperateness, intemperance - consumption of alcoholic drinks

drinking bout - a long period of drinking

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He's taken to quiet boozing, and, Bobby, when the butt of a room goes on the drink, or takes to moping by himself, measures are necessary to pull him out of himself."

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Chinese and Japanese shops and dens abounded, all confusedly intermingled with low white resorts and boozing dens.

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support Northumbria Police say that the area is plagued with youth disorder associated with under age boozing.

Off-licence sold vodka and beer to 17-year-old

CORRIE star Michael Le Vell is boozing again after being sober for two years, we can reveal.

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What is needed is a massive change in attitude towards drink, so that heavy boozing is no longer viewed as normal and routine but something damaging and odd.

No simple answer to the issue of drinking

Boozing can also affect zinc and iron levels, which are required to feed healthy hair.

DYING FOR A DRINK; TOLL OF BOOZE ON YOUR BODY

Can he take the chance or will his irresponsible boozing mean that he'll wreck the budding relationship he's started with single-mum Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal)?

Heart-felt role is worthy of Oscar; CRAZY HEART 15

The force has already led the way with initiatives such as that in the Colwyn Bay area where police carrying breathalysers go on the beat to catch young people boozing in parks and on the street.