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booze

(bo͞oz) Slang

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.

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

booz′er n.

booz′i·ly adv.

booz′y adj.

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boozer

(ˈbuːzə)

1. a person who is fond of drinking

2. Brit and Austral and NZ a bar or pub

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Noun

boozer - a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, lush, souse, soaker

drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino - a chronic drinker

boozer

noun (Informal)

1. pub, local (Brit. informal), bar (informal, chiefly Brit.), inn, tavern, public house, watering hole (facetious slang), roadhouse, hostelry, alehouse (archaic), taproom She once caught him in a boozer with another woman.

2. drinker, toper, drunk, soak (slang), alcoholic, lush (slang), drunkard, sot, tippler, wino (informal), inebriate We always thought he was a bit of a boozer.

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boozer

noun

Slang. A person who is habitually drunk:

drunk, drunkard, inebriate, sot, tippler.

Slang: boozehound, lush, rummy, soak, souse, sponge, stiff.

Translations

Schluckspecht

juoppokapakkapubi

beone osteria ubriacone

alkis

boozer

[ˈbuːzəʳ] N

1. (= person) → bebedor(a) m/f, tomador(a) m/f (LAm)

2. (Brit) (= pub) → bar m

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boozer

[ˈbuːzə^r] n

(= person) he's a boozer → il picole pas mal

(British) (= pub) → pub m, bistrot mbooze-up [ˈbuːzʌp] n (British) → beuverie f

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boozer

(pej inf: = drinker) → Säufer(in) m(f) (pej inf), → Schluckspecht m (inf)

(Brit inf: = pub) → Kneipe f (inf)

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boozer

[ˈbuːzəʳ] (fam) n (person) → beone m (Brit) (pub) → osteria

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