boozing

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Noun

boozing (countable and uncountable, plural boozings)

  1. (colloquial) The act of drinking alcohol heavily.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 85:
      "So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions."
    • 1989, Bill Kauffman, Every Man a King, page 220:
      Men, bearded, hirsute, sat dolefully at the bar, eyes translucent from diurnal boozings.

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boozing

  1. present participle and gerund of booze
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