booze
noun/buːz/
/buːz/
[uncountable] (informal)- alcoholic drink
- Now he’s off the booze (= he has given up drinking alcohol), he’s a different person.
Extra ExamplesTopics Social issuesc2, Drinksc2- He turned to booze (= started drinking a lot of alcohol) when his wife died.
- He was dry for years but now he's back on the booze.
- I could smell booze on his breath.
- She's been off the booze for a month now.
- She's still trying to kick the booze.
- There was free booze at the party.
- We need to take some booze to the party.
- The party was great but we had run out of booze by midnight.
- They went to buy some cheap booze.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- cheap
- free
- smell
- bring
- take
- …
- problem
- cruise
- cruise
- …
- off the booze
- on the booze
Word OriginMiddle English bouse, from Middle Dutch būsen ‘drink to excess’. The spelling booze dates from the 18th cent.
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