booze cruise
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A brief trip from Britain to France or Belgium in order to buy alcohol (or tobacco) in bulk quantities without paying excise duty.
British usage
noun
A recreational trip on a cruise ship or boat usually tailored to young people, with the expectation of heavy consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Australian usage; American usage
Example Sentences
- "1998 November, Queen City Chronicle: Wedding Belles, Cincinnati Magazine, page 13, I was still a little tipsy, see, because Tony proposed to me on a booze cruise. You know a booze cruise? That′s where they take a fishing boat and wash all the fish guts off of it at night and turn it into a party boat."
- "“Goddamnit, Petey, you know I hate booze cruises at the best of times. A bunch of drunken assholes that make a piss-up at home look like a Tupperware Party.”"
- "They told us the corporation had taken their top salesmen to the Bahamas on a luxury liner booze cruise. Actually it had been a themed booze cruise, under the banner “The Best Damn Mortgage Company. Period.”"
- "As I booze cruised home from the function, I gazed gleefully at the beautiful rising sun."
Usage
- British usage
- Australian usage
- American usage
- Humorous
Inflected Forms
booze cruises (plural)
booze cruises (present, singular)
booze cruising (participle, present)
booze cruised (participle, past)
booze cruised (past)