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US
/kɝˈaʊzɪŋ/
]
[ UK /kˈæɹaʊsɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kˈæɹaʊsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
used of riotously drunken merrymaking
orgiastic festivity
a night of bacchanalian revelry
carousing bands of drunken soldiers
How To Use carousing In A Sentence
- They go out dining, drinking, and carousing together.
- The carousing was a necessary stimulant after the long, monotonous drive and exposure to the elements. The Outlet
- Napoa had not had a peaceful night’s sleep at the camp, confessing that she knew from her dreams that she was still “roaming everywhere,” a euphemism for carousing with her coven. Spellbound
- As well as turning back the clock on the field, the end of the 90 minutes simply signalled the beginning of a great night's carousing and reminiscing at the players' post-match party.
- It is the morning after the night before and he is looking relatively chipper despite a late night carousing in Glasgow.
- Elected to the Illinois legislature in 1936, Daley was a hard-working, clean-living exception to the carousing lifestyle of the state's legislative culture.
- For example, "mallemaroking" — a word meaning the "carousing of seamen in ice-bound ships. Defined Intervention
- There was the opportunity to continue drinking and carousing, but I'd had enough.
- Through that view-medium of misfortuneof a noble spirit in low environments, and of a squalid and premature deathwe view the undoubted facts, (giving, as we read them now, a sad kind of pungency,) that Burnss were, before all else, the lyrics of illicit loves and carousing intoxication. Robert Burns as Poet and Person. November Boughs
- Sherkin was a pirate kingdom for a brief period of prosperity, providing beaches for careening ships, a safe landfall and opportunity for carousing.