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Definition: Booze |
BoozeNoun1. Distilled rather than fermented. Verb1. Consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "booze" was first used: 1768. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | See:boose. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Swiss German (gülle, güllne ). (references) |
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Synonyms: BoozeSynonyms: hard drink (n), hard liquor (n), liquor (n), spirits (n), strong drink (n), drink (v), fuddle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Booze |
| English words defined with "booze": Boose, Boozed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "booze": MEAL ♦ tope. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I demand to have some booze. (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.) Can I have another one of these with some booze in it (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Because I believe you will buy booze with it. I just want to get from the car to my office without being confronted by the decay of western society (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur) Ha-ha. Where was I? Oh yeah, stay out of my booze! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Let's have a bachelor party with chicks and guns and firetrucks and hookers and drugs and booze! (Bachelor Party; writing credit: Bob Israel; Neal Israel) | |
Lyrics | Hatin I just bought the booze (Young'n; performing artist: Fabolous) But there's booze in the blender (Margaritaville; performing artist: JIMMY BUFFET) Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash) Drinkin' booze and minglin'. (Starry Eyed Surprise; performing artist: Paul Oakenfold) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Booze (2002) The Booze Hangs High (1930) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Old man booze jumps on Maryland bone dry bill while Daniels prepares to hit him with a five mile zone bat. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two campaign hustlers from way back, Booze & Boodle. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | The largest liquor retail groups are Liquorland/Vintage Cellars, Theo’s, Mac’s, Liquor Stax, Liquor Stop, Pubmart, and Porter’s (New South Wales); Cheers, Liquor Xpress, and Safeway (Victoria); Action Liquor, Liquor King, and Liquor Legends (Queensland); Sip’N Save, Booze Brothers, Clancy’s (South Australia); and Liquor Barons, Liberty, and Western Cellars (Western Australia). (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. |
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Rosemary Clooney | When you quit smoking, I said to myself, I can't do this. I can never do this. Because I enjoy it too much. I gave up pills. Booze is kind of gone, not altogether, but I can't do this. I can't give up smoking. Well, I did. |
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| "Booze" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.72% of the time. "Booze" is used about 237 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.72% | 215 | 20,643 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.91% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.95% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.42% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 237 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "booze" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Booze | Last name | 1,000 | 11,913 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "booze": be on the booze ♦ booze to ♦ go on the booze ♦ hit the booze ♦ spend on booze. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "booze": booze-driven, booze-induced, booze-up, booze-ups. | |
Ending with "booze": anti-booze. | |
Containing "booze": beef-booze-no. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "booze"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pije alkoolike (alcohol, boose, drink, fuddle, grog, guzzle, hard drink, hooch, hootch, libation, liquor, lush, ratafee, ratafia, sauce), pi (boose, bouse, consume, drink, imbibe, liquor, lush, take a drink, take to drink, tipple, tope), e pirë (boose, drink, drinking bout, potation). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرح صاخب (bat, bender, binge, boose, hilarity, razzle-dazzle, rejoicing, revelry, rip roaring), خمر (boose, brew, ferment, inebriant, port, raise, red, sour, vintage, wine), شراب مسكر (boose, brandy, champagne, drink, drinking, inebriant, intoxicant, medicine, nappy, peg, pot, rum), شرب باسراف (boose). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пиянствувам (bib, boose, bouse, drink, drinking, soak, spree, tope), питие (aperitif, beverage, drink, quencher, sauce), пиене (drink, drinking, guzzle, potation, soak, something to drink, swill). (various references) | |
Czech | pít jako duha (drink like a fish), pít (drink, tipple), opíjet se (becoming drunk, tope), chlastat (guzzle, swill), chlast, alkohol (alcohol, drink, intoxicant, liquor). (various references) | |
Dutch | drank (alcohol, beverage, drink, liquor, spirits, strong drink), alcoholische drank (alcohol, liquor, spirits, strong drink), alcohol (alcohol, liquor, spirits, strong drink). (various references) | |
Esperanto | drinkaĵo, alkoholaĵo (alcohol, liquor, spirits, strong drink). (various references) | |
Farsi | مست کردن (Befuddle, Fuzz, Inebriate, Intoxicate, Lush, Sot, Tipple), مشروبات الکلی بحدافراطنوشیدن , مشروب الکلی (Liquor, Stimulant). (various references) | |
Finnish | viina (alcohol, liquor, spirits), ryypiskellä (drink, tipple), juopotella (drink), juomingit (binge, drinking-bout, spree). (various references) | |
French | boisson alcoolisé, biberonner, biberon (baby bottle, baby's bottle, nursing bottle), lever le coude, gniaule. (various references) | |
German | schnaps (brandy, drink, liquor, schnapps, schnaps, spirits), saufen (drink, drink to excess, drinking, guzzle, quaff, swig), Alkohol (alcohol, drink, liquor, sauce). (various references) | |
Greek | μεθοκοπώ (boose, carouse, take to drink), ποτό μεθυστικό (boose). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tütü (likker, tutu), szeszes ital (alcoholic drink, boose, bouse, drink, hard liquor, intoxicant, likker, liquor, lush, rum, spirit, tiddly, tipple), pia (likker, suck, swill, tiddly), ivászat (bend, bender, boose, bouse, carousal, guzzle, heavy drinking, reels, soak, swill, toot), ital (beverage, drink, jake, potation, potion, quencher, snifter, swill). (various references) | |
Indonesian | minuman keras (brandy, cocktail, intoxicant, liquor). (various references) | |
Italian | bevanda alcolica (boose), bere smoderatamente (boose), liquore (boose, liqueur, liquor), acquavite (brandy, schnapps, spirits). (various references) | |
Manx | iu dy trome. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oozebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bebidas (potable), bebidaalcoólica (liquor, spirits, strong drink), bebida alcoólica (alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, boose, intoxicant, liquor, lotion, pick-me-up, stimulant, strong drink), embriagar-se (boose, soak). (various references) | |
Romanian | beţie la cataramã (spree), beţie (carousal, debauch, debauchery, drink, drinking bout, drunk, drunkenness, ecstasy, fuddle, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, libation, rouse, sheet), bea vârtos (drink deep, drink hard, drink heavily, drink like a fish), bea (bib, carouse, consume, drink, drink to excess, finish, have a drink, imbibe, sip, swig, take, take up), bãuturicã (draught, drink), zaiafet (feast, revel, spread, spree), trage (absorb, come, drag, drag in, drag out, draw, evolve, extract, fetch, fire, guzzle, haul, heave, hitch, lie, lug, pluck, pop, pull, pull up, rub, screw, shoot, strike off, suffer, tipple, toll, tug, worry), suge (absorb, bib, guzzle, sop, suck, suckle), se beţivi, cinsti (drink, esteem, grace, hallow, honor, honour, keep, respect, treat), chiolhan (blow out, spree), chercheli (get fuddled), chefui (carouse, feast, go on the spree, junket, revel, spree, tipple), chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, blow out, bust, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish), ţuicui. (various references) | |
Russian | спиртной напиток (boose, drink, guzzle, hard drink, hooch, liquor, lotion, tipple), хмельное, выпивка (boose, libation, load on, refresher, wampo), напиваться (become drunk, boose, fuddle, sotted, take to drink), бухало (boose), пьянствовать (boose, go on the binge, guzzle, have a binge, tipple, tope, toping). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | piti (boose, drink), pijančiti (boose, drink, guzzle, revel), alkoholno piće (boose, hooch, libation, liquor, spirit, swizzle, tipple). (various references) | |
Spanish | alcohol (alcohol, cane liquor, hard drink, liquor, spirit, spirits, strong drink), borrachera (binge, boose, drunkenness, razzle, razzle-dazzle). (various references) | |
Sranan | sopi (alcohol, liquor, spirits, strong drink). (various references) | |
Swedish | supa (bib, drink, drink to excess, fuddle, guzzle, lush, soak, tipple, tope). (various references) | |
Turkish | kafayı çekmek (carouse, drink heavily, go on a bat, have a wet, swill), içki içmek (carouse, drink, drinking, get liquored up, go on the booze, have a wet, hit the booze, liquor, wet one's whistle), içki alemi (bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanals, binge, carousal, drinking bout, drunk, jag, souse, wassail), içki (alcohol, alcoholic drink, bottle, drink, drinking, hooch, juice, liquor, poison, potation, quencher, rum, stimulant, wet), cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), alem yapmak (go on a spree, go on the booze, go on the razzle-dazzle, hit the booze, junket, make whoopee, revel, rollick), alem (bat, bender, binge, blast, blind, blow out, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, class of beings, condition, creation, entertainment, jollification, junket, kingdom, nature, orgy, party, potation, potations, razzle-dazzle, realm, revel, revelry, riot, rollicking time, spree, state, universe, whoopee, world). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гулянка (beanfeast, beano, junket, revel, revelry, wassail, whiz, whizz), випивка (boose, damp, nosedive, pot, potation, wet), випивати (bibble, drink, libate, wine), пиятика (binge, carousal, carouse, crapulence, debauch, fuddle, libation, nosedive, racquet, whoopee). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bữa rượu tuý luý rượu (bouse), sự say sưa (bouse, impassionedness). (various references) | |
Welsh | meddwi (get drunk, inebriate, intoxicate), diota (bib, tipple), diod feddwol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | busen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "booze": boozed, boozer, boozers, boozes. (additional references) | |
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"Booze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bavouzet, Begozi, Benozzo, bidouze, bioze, bloze, boez, Boezem, bofe, boize, Bomza, boobe, Boode, booe, booie, booke, boore, Boote, booz, boozel, Boozey, bose, Bouaziz, Boube, Bouez, bouie, bouse, bouz, bouzah, bouze, Bouzi, boz, boze, Bozhe, bozie, bozou, Bozza, Bozzi, Bozzie, brooz, brooze, broze, Buize, bujosa, buoz, buza, buze, buzi, Buzu, Cocozza, cooze, fooze, obizzi, pooze, Qoboza, rooze, wooze. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "booze" (pronounced buw"z) |
| 3 | b uw" z | boos, taboos. |
| 2 | -uw" z | abuse, accrues, accuse, amuse, confuse, bemuse, blues, brews, bruise, canoes, chews, choose, Clews, clues, coups, crews, cruise, Cruse, cues, defuse, Dews, diffuse, disabuse, Druse, dues, ensues, enthuse, eschews, ewes, excuse, flus, fuse, glues, goos, Hews, hues, infuse, jews, kangaroos, loos, lose, miscues, misuse, moos, muse, news, oohs, ooze, overuse, peruse, pews, pursues, queues, recuse, refuse, renews, reuse, reviews, revues, Roose, ruse, schmooze, screws, shampoos, shoes, skews, snooze, sous, spews, stews, sues, suffuse, tattoos, tews, transfuse, twos, use, views, whose, woos, zoos. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-o-o-z" | |
-1 letter: bozo, oboe, ooze. | |
-2 letters: boo, obe, zoo. | |
-3 letters: be, bo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-o-o-z" | |
+1 letter: boozed, boozer, boozes, rebozo. | |
+2 letters: boozers, boozier, rebozos. | |
+3 letters: booziest, robotize, zoophobe. | |
+4 letters: bamboozle, robotized, robotizes, zebrawood, zoophobes. | |
+5 letters: bamboozled, bamboozles, lobotomize, zebrawoods. | |
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