booze
/buz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.65 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars She got caught between the shadows and the booze And she surely did know how to have the blues"
- "In some Canadian provinces […] American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday."
- "We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over."
- "This is better than boozing in public houses."
- "It's worse than kerosene to boose."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /buz/
- British English: /buːz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
liquor[Appendix:Glossary
adult beverage
grog
liquor
spirits
hard drink
hard liquor
john barleycorn
strong drink