Drinking-bout
51carouse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. feast, revel; debauch, drink. See drinking. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. make merry, imbibe, revel, party*; see celebrate 3 , drink 2 , play 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. drink, party, frolic,… …
52intemperance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of moderation Nouns 1. intemperance, indulgence, overindulgence, high living, self indulgence; voluptuousness; epicurism, epicureanism, sybaritism (see gluttony); drunkenness, drinking; prodigality… …
53drunkenness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. inebriety, inebriation, intoxication, intemperance, insobriety, alcoholism, dipsomania, tipsiness, crapulence, heavy drinking, boozing*, guzzling*, pickle*, glow*, mellowness*, jag*, head full of bees*; see also drinking… …
54bevy — (n.) early 15c., collective noun of quails and ladies, from Anglo Fr. bevée, of unknown origin. One supposed definition of the word is a drinking bout, but this is perhaps a misprint of bever, from O.Fr. beivre (see BEVERAGE (Cf. beverage)).… …
55binge — (n.) 1854, drinking bout, also (v.) drink heavily, soak up alcohol; dialectal use of binge soak (a wooden vessel). Noted originally as a Northampton dialect word. Sense extended c. World War I to include eating as well as drinking. Related:… …
56potion — c.1300, from O.Fr. pocion (12c.), from L. potionem (nom. potio) potion, a drinking, from potus drunken, irregular pp. of potare to drink, from PIE root *po /*pi drink (Cf. Skt. pati drinks; Gk. pinein to drink …
57on the piss — adj, adv British engaged in a drinking bout or habitual heavy drinking …
58sesh — n British 1. a drinking bout. A shortening of (drinking) session used typically by middle class youths in Britain from the late 1980s. We had a good sesh last night. 2. romantic play or sexual petting. In this sense the abbreviation is typically… …
59potation — n. 1. Drinking. 2. Drink, draught. 3. Dram, drink, potion, draught. 4. Drinking bout, debauch, carouse, perpotation, tippling …
60booze — /buz / (say boohz) Colloquial –noun 1. alcoholic drink. 2. a drinking bout; spree. –verb (boozed, boozing) –verb (i) 3. to drink alcohol, especially immoderately: they were boozing all night. –verb (t) 4. to drink (alcohol), especially… …
