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booze

noun
🔊/buːz/
🔊/buːz/
[uncountable] (informal)
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  1. alcoholic drink酒精饮料
    • Now he’s off the booze (= he has given up drinking alcohol), he’s a different person.现在他不再喝酒了（他放弃喝酒了），他是另一个人。
    Extra Examples
    • He turned to booze (= started drinking a lot of alcohol) when his wife died.妻子死后，他开始酗酒。
    • He was dry for years but now he's back on the booze.他多年不沾酒，但现在又开始喝了。
    • I could smell booze on his breath.我能从他的呼吸中闻到酒味。
    • She's been off the booze for a month now.到现在她已经一个月滴酒不沾了。
    • She's still trying to kick the booze.她仍在努力戒酒。
    • There was free booze at the party.聚会上有免费的酒水。
    • We need to take some booze to the party.我们需要带些酒去参加聚会。
    • The party was great but we had run out of booze by midnight.派对办得很成功，但到午夜时我们的酒便不够喝了。
    • They went to buy some cheap booze.他们去买了一些便宜的酒。
    Topics Social issuesc2, Drinksc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • cheap
    • free
    verb + booze
    • smell
    • bring
    • take
    • …
    booze + noun
    • problem
    • cruise
    • cruise
    • …
    preposition
    • off the booze
    • on the booze
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    Word OriginMiddle English bouse, from Middle Dutch būsen ‘drink to excess’. The spelling booze dates from the 18th cent.

booze

verb
🔊/buːz/
🔊/buːz/
 [intransitive] usually used in the progressive tenses通常用于进行时 (informal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they booze
🔊/buːz/
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he / she / it boozes
🔊/ˈbuːzɪz/
🔊/ˈbuːzɪz/
past simple boozed
🔊/buːzd/
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past participle boozed
🔊/buːzd/
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-ing form boozing
🔊/ˈbuːzɪŋ/
🔊/ˈbuːzɪŋ/
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  1. to drink alcohol, especially in large quantities喝酒；（尤指）狂饮
    • He's out boozing with his mates.他和他的朋友们喝酒去了。🔊🔊
    • He had to quit boozing as it was threatening to wreck his life.他不得不戒酒，因为这正威胁着他的生命。
    Topics Social issuesc2
    Word OriginMiddle English bouse, from Middle Dutch būsen ‘drink to excess’. The spelling booze dates from the 18th cent.