[
US
/ˈbuzɪŋ/
]
[ UK /bˈuːzɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /bˈuːzɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
drink was his downfall
How To Use boozing In A Sentence
- I gave Isaac a dram to kep his heart up, and he sung and leuch as if he had been boozing with some of his drucken cronies; for feint a hair cared he about auld kirkyards, or vouts, or dead folk in their winding-sheets, with the wet grass growing over them. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
- He is boozing in a wild manner, and has become a nuisance.
- I know she has mental health problems, but her bipolar condition won't be helped by taking illegal drugs and boozing. The Sun
- Mrs White is worried about her son, since he spends every night boozing with his friends.
- Half of all cases of cirrhosis of the liver are caused by heavy boozing. The Sun
- He claimed that actors were given a ‘dressing down’ when they got things wrong or when they were caught boozing.
- There was a time in my distant past when I could go out boozing and dancing, get home in time to change into my work clothes and do a full days grafting, ready to go out again at night.
- Starring Linda Griffiths as Ripples, a boozing floozy with a weak spot for a pimp who throws her out, The Blues is darkly comical as it plays out the desperation and dreams of four characters in a dingy New York bar.
- ‘They just thought Ruby was this swinging party chick, boozing it up with tons of boyfriends’.
- And officers have introduced a drinking ban, which means they can stop people boozing in designated public places.