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countable and uncountable, plural boozes
(colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage. (Especially hard liquor.) quotations examples
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.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press
She got caught between the shadows and the booze / And she surely did know how to have the blues
1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars
(colloquial, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.
third-person singular simple present boozes, present participle boozing, simple past and past participle boozed
(slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol. quotations
This is better than boozing in public houses.
1884, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life
(slang, transitive) To drink (an alcoholic beverage). quotations
It's worse than kerosene to boose.
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 62