booze

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

1. Any alcoholic beverage.

   “The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.”

   “1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars She got caught between the shadows and the booze And she surely did know how to have the blues”

2. Any alcoholic beverage.
3. A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

verb

Etymology: Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

1. To drink alcohol.

   “We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.”

   “This is better than boozing in public houses.”

2. To drink (an alcoholic beverage).

   “It's worse than kerosene to boose.”