carousing

verbmake merry, often with liquor

Synonyms for carousing

verb make merry, often with liquor

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Word Origin & History

1550s, from Middle French carousser "drink, quaff, swill," from German gar aus "quite out," from gar austrinken; trink garaus "to drink up entirely." Frequently also as an adverb in early English usage (to drink carouse).

Example Sentences for carousing

He does not even tell us what pleasure Henry finds in living and carousing with Falstaff.

I remember, as if the scene of carousing of the old roysterers had been a sort of sanctuary.

But for her these nights would be spent in drinking, roistering, fighting and carousing.

It is simply a cup of tea we mean to give; sorely there's no carousing in that.

After a while the carousing bandits called for what they called "Black Peter."

The whole day was devoted to barbarian feasting and carousing.

So he left the carousing crowd, and betook himself to his quarters.

I understand, Philibert; they were carousing at that hour of daylight?

The visiting and carousing of seamen in the Greenland ships.

The hour fixed on was just before night, when they would all be carousing.

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