booze

Definition

Any alcoholic beverage.

Etymology

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

Example Sentences

• "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"
• "In some Canadian provinces […] American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday."

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