Booze
WordNet
noun
(1) An alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
verb
(2) Consume alcohol
"We were up drinking all night"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
bousen and bouse (noun), and connected with Dutch buizen and German bousen. (Reference: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, ISBN 0304935700.)
A derivation from U.S. distiller E. C. Booz is false; the term in various forms long pre-dates his entry into the manufacture of booze.
Verb
- To drink alcohol.
- We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hungover.