Booze Meaning
/buːz/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAny alcoholic beverage.
nounAny alcoholic beverage., Any hard liquor.
Sentence Examples
He pissed away his inheritance on booze and loose women.
The doctor warned me to stay away from booze.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He smuggled bottles of ____ into the concert in his jacket.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The party was full of ____, so I decided to leave early tonight city.
Word Origin & History
Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden."
— 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
"In some Canadian provinces […] American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday."
— 2025 February 2, Nadine Yousif, “Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur 'buy local' pledge”, in BBC News:
"This is better than boozing in public houses."
— 1884, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life:
"It's worse than kerosene to boose."
— 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 62:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He smuggled bottles of ____ into the concert in his jacket.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The party was full of ____, so I decided to leave early tonight city.