boozed

booze

 (bo͞oz) Slang

n.

1.

a. Hard liquor.

b. An alcoholic beverage.

2. A drinking spree.

intr.v. boozed, booz·ing, booz·es

To drink alcoholic beverages excessively or chronically.

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[Alteration of obsolete bouse, from Middle English bousen, to drink to excess, from Middle Dutch būsen.]

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booz′er n.

booz′i·ly adv.

booz′y adj.

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Thesaurus

boozed

adjective

Slang. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor:

besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy.

Informal: cockeyed, stewed.

Slang: blind, bombed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked.

Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in the wind.

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Translations

blau

boozed(-up)

adj (inf) → blau (inf), → alkoholisiert (inf)

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