boozed; boozing
: to drink intoxicating liquor especially to excess
—often used in the phrase booze it up
: intoxicating drink
especially
: hard liquor
Examples of booze in a Sentence
Verb
He was out boozing with his friends.
he went out boozing with his friends on his 21st birthday
Noun
We bought some chips and booze for the party.
this will be a birthday party without booze
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Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026
Best Hotels & Resorts The Old Gin House This spot was a public guesthouse in 1760, later a factory (the gin refers to cotton, not booze).
—Jeannette Cooperman, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2026
Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
But as more flyers turn to booze to soothe their nerves, the number of aggressive incidents on planes involving passengers has crept up.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 6 May 2026
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Verb
When a screaming match nearly ended in a fistfight—the director was famously into drugs, booze, and gambling at the time—Toberoff quit.
—Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026
Best Hotels & Resorts The Old Gin House This spot was a public guesthouse in 1760, later a factory (the gin refers to cotton, not booze).
—Jeannette Cooperman, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
As Van Gogh had his sunflowers and Proust his madeleine, so Neil Diamond had a bottle of cheap Canadian booze.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
But as more flyers turn to booze to soothe their nerves, the number of aggressive incidents on planes involving passengers has crept up.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 6 May 2026
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“Booze.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/booze. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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