booze

1. 1.

   consume alcohol

   “We were up drinking all night”

   Synonymshit the bottledrinkfuddle

   Broaderconsume

   Narrowertankportclaretpub-crawltipplesousewinecarry

Other forms of booze

plural

boozes·

past tense

boozed·

present participle

boozing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about booze

What does booze mean?

booze means "an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in booze?

booze has 1 syllable: booze. In IPA it is /ˈbuz/.

What is another word for booze?

Close synonyms include liquor, spirits, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is booze a common word?

booze is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.