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Synonyms for booze

Grammar : Noun
Spell : booz
Phonetic Transcription : buz

Définition of booze

Origin :
  • by 1821, perhaps 1714; probably originally as a verb, "to drink a lot" (1768), variant of Middle English bouse (c.1300), from Middle Dutch busen "to drink heavily," related to Middle High German bus (intransitive) "to swell, inflate," of unknown origin. The noun reinforced by name of Philadelphia distiller E.G. Booze. Johnson's dictionary has rambooze "A drink made of wine, ale, eggs and sugar in winter time; or of wine, milk, sugar and rose-water in the summer time." In New Zealand from c.World War II, a drinking binge was a boozeroo.
  • noun liquor
Example sentences :
  • If health is a desideratum, one way to attain a lot of it is to cut out the booze.
  • Extract from : « The Old Game » by Samuel G. Blythe
  • The glasses were filled up again as fast as they were emptied, the booze increased.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • At eight o'clock that day, he was still lively from the booze of the day before.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • A man could fight on booze, he said, but it was a mighty poor foundation for business.
  • Extract from : « The Duke Of Chimney Butte » by G. W. Ogden
  • Keep them out of the house and away from the women, and let them have their booze down in the grove.
  • Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
  • The old boy was sober by then, and crazy for a shot of booze.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1920 » by Various
  • It's the genial dispenser of booze here beside me she's afraid of.
  • Extract from : « A Woman who went to Alaska » by May Kellogg Sullivan
  • You see, I knew what he didn't know I knew—about his fight with the booze.
  • Extract from : « Prairie Flowers » by James B. Hendryx
  • Apparently he has been on the jag all the week, and to-day's booze finished him off.
  • Extract from : « The Green Rust » by Edgar Wallace
  • But if you could get booze, you'd make this camp a hell on earth right now.
  • Extract from : « Still Jim » by Honor Willsie Morrow

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