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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CAROUSE, v.i. carouz. To drink hard; to guzzle. In the United States, it signifies also to be noisy, as bacchanalians.
CAROUSE, n. A drinking match; a hearty drink or full draught of liquor; a noisy drinking match.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up] v
1: engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; "They were out carousing last night" [syn: carouse, roister, riot]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle French carrousse, from carous, adverb, all out (in boire carous to empty the cup), from German gar aus Date: 1559 1. archaic a large draft of liquor ; toast 2. a drunken revel II. verb (caroused; carousing) Date: 1566 intransitive verb 1. to drink liquor freely or excessively 2. to take part in a carouse ; engage in dissolute behavior transitive verb obsolete to drink up ; quaff • carouser noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. 1 have a noisy or lively drinking-party. 2 drink heavily. --n. a noisy or lively drinking-party. Derivatives: carousal n. carouser n. Etymology: orig. as adv. = right out, in phr. drink carouse f. G gar aus trinken

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Carouse Ca*rouse" v. t. To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. [Archaic] Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. --Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. --Young.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Carouse Ca*rouse" (k[.a]*rouz"), n. [F. carrousse, earlier carous, fr. G. garaus finishing stroke, the entire emptying of the cup in drinking a health; gar entirely + aus out. See Yare, and Out.] 1. A large draught of liquor. [Obs.] ``A full carouse of sack.'' --Sir J. Davies. Drink carouses to the next day's fate. --Shak. 2. A drinking match; a carousal. The early feast and late carouse. --Pope.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Carouse Ca*rouse", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caroused; p. pr. & vb. n. Carousing.] To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels. He had been aboard, carousing to his mates. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(carouses, carousing, caroused) If you say that people are carousing, you mean that they are behaving very noisily and drinking a lot of alcohol as they enjoy themselves. They told him to stay home with his wife instead of going out and carousing with friends. VERB: V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Revel, tipple, guzzle. II. n. See carousal.

Moby Thesaurus

bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bender, binge, booze, boozer, bout, brannigan, bust, carousal, celebrate, celebration, compotation, create a disturbance, create a riot, cut loose, debauch, debauchery, debauchment, dissipate, dissipation, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fling, free living, frolic, go berserk, guzzle, hell, hell around, high living, jag, jollify, jolly, killing pace, lark, let go, let loose, let off steam, licentiousness, live hard, make a commotion, make an ado, make merry, make trouble, make whoopee, not, orgy, party, ploy, plunge into dissipation, potation, pub-crawl, raise a ruckus, raise a rumpus, raise a storm, raise hell, randan, randy, revel, riot, riotous living, roil, roister, run amok, run riot, run wild, saturnalia, see life, skylark, spree, step out, symposium, tear, toot, wanton, wassail, whoop it up, wingding