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Carouse   /kərˈaʊz/   Listen
Carouse

noun
1.
Revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party.  Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carousal, toot.



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"Carouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... youth and the sensual pleasures of middle age. The unbeliever who in the height of his cynical humor had been wont to persuade others to believe in laws and principles at which he scoffed, must repose nightly upon a perhaps. The great Duke, the pattern of good breeding, the champion of many a carouse, the proud ornament of Courts, the man of genius, the graceful winner of hearts that he had wrung as carelessly as a peasant twists an osier withe, was now the victim of a cough, of a ruthless sciatica, ...
— The Elixir of Life • Honore de Balzac

... port wine, consumed a bottle of Rhine wine at lunch, of Burgundy at dinner, and finished off the evening with one or two more bottles of port. Then he heard, too, how, in the course of a night's carouse, Holm had lost the manuscript of a book; and in these traits he saw the outline of the figure of ...
— Hedda Gabler - Play In Four Acts • Henrik Ibsen

... a sound sleep, their mouths open, their breath coming noisily between their parted lips. There were no dogs to be seen. Nothing broke the intense stillness that prevailed. It was plainly as the old woodman had said. Their nocturnal raid had been followed by a grand carouse on the return home, and now the party, overcome by fatigue and strong drink, and secure in the fancied privacy of their isolated retreat, had retired to rest within the cave, leaving two fellows on guard, to be sure, but plainly without the smallest apprehension ...
— In the Days of Chivalry • Evelyn Everett-Green



Words linked to "Carouse" :   roister, racket, make whoopie, whoop it up, carousal, revelry, toot, revel, make happy, wassail, jollify, make merry



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