(v. i.) To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.
(n.) A carouse; a drinking.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
(2) It was always an open house – people would come around at all hours and there would be dancing and card-playing and boozing and singing.
(3) It is the fact that the poor spend too much on fags and booze.
(4) Snowden disclosed his identity in an explosive interview with the Guardian , published on Sunday, which revealed he was a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.
(5) Article 6 of the EU treaty could not be clearer: “The union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the member states.” Lest this be regarded as mere rhetoric, Lord Bingham, the former senior law lord and widely regarded as the most outstanding British judge in the late 20th century, wrote in his book The Rule of Law (p67): “The European Commission has consistently treated democratisation, the rule of law, respect for human rights and good governance as inseparably linked.” This is why, today, we can work anywhere in the EU, have health cover throughout, bring back as much booze in the back of the van as we like, travel on cheap EU-based airlines (with the right to claim compensation for any delay), buy the villa in Marbella, and say what we like – and we can do all of these things with our rights fully protected by the law, just as if we were in the UK.
(6) A good slug of booze (brandy or calvados) makes for a very adult crumble.
(7) There is definitely no money for treats: "I don't smoke or drink but if I get desperate I've got a load of booze in my kitchen from my birthday party last year."
(8) Vinny's fame was quick, fickle and fizzled out a generation ago, hence leaving him quite literally sleeping in a skip, pickled by booze.
(9) Health workers say many of the resort's problems with booze can be traced to urban deprivation and the decline in tourism.
(10) Her parents, the actor Debbie Reynolds and the crooner Eddie Fisher, divorced when she was 18 months old: her father ran off with Elizabeth Taylor, her mother turned to booze.
(11) He had gone to religious school as a kid in Kuwait, and as the war closed in on Aleppo in 2012 he sought refuge in Islamic piety (though he could not bring himself to give up booze or cigarettes).
(12) The celebration of booze also ensures plenty of hilarious after-dinner anecdotes too, like when Tony Adams set off a fire extinguisher, or the time Stan Collymore set off a fire extinguisher.
(13) In February 2012, the US air force suspended Booz Allen from seeking government contracts after it discovered that Joselito Meneses, a former deputy chief of information technology for the air force, had given Booz Allen a hard drive with confidential information about a competitor's contracting on the first day that he went to work for the company in San Antonio, Texas.
(14) In 1995, when Williams walked out on his boyband, he bounded into Liam's rock'n'roll life with ease – because although he had once writhed around in jelly , he also had a rebellious side with a penchant for Adidas jackets, booze, birds and fags.
(15) And those who aren't able to trip the light fantastic thanks to a fake ID, sample booze purchased by someone's older brother or sneak out the house after dark will have to do all this in their 20s and, believe me, coughing up a lung after one toke of your boss's cigarette is not a good look at the office Christmas party.
(16) Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo The Beer Mile – like the Olympics but with boozing Read more Despite initial doubts from city councillors, the beer pipeline has become an urban hit, sparking endless jokes about illegal tapping points and secret home drilling.
(17) Clapper worked as vice-president at Booz Allen from 1997 to 1998, while Snowden did a three-month stint at their offices in Hawaii in spring 2013 as a low-level contract employee.
(18) Under rapid-mix conditions it was shown that the time scale of radiosensitization by misonidazole can be resolved into two components [S. Kandaiya et al., in Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Microdosimetry (J. Booz et al., Eds.
(19) He has banned the sale of alcohol from 10pm to 6am, and banished booze from the vicinity of shops and mosques.
(20) Gradually, the powders were edged out, to be replaced by booze; there was a final split with his wife, Angie; and his formidable creativity surged back.
Brew
Definition:
(v. t.) To boil or seethe; to cook.
(v. t.) To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
(v. t.) To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
(v. t.) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
(v. i.) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
(v. i.) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
(n.) The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
Example Sentences:
(1) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(2) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(3) YEp plasmid stability in the presence of either Saccharomyces cerevisiae laboratory strain 2-microns DNA, or lager brewing yeast 2-microns DNA in the same genetic background, was compared under non-selective culture conditions.
(4) Beer had been brewed at the site continuously since the 16th century, in 1831 becoming the home of brewers Young & Co, which maintained the pub that gave the brewery its name.
(5) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
(6) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
(7) Presently a serious disagreement is brewing between the contested president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , and the speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, over government subsidies.
(8) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
(9) Having effectively achieved its goal to promote cask ale as “real” ale (more than 11,000 real ales are now brewed in the UK ), the 45-year-old organisation has been enduring an identity crisis, and is looking to its members for a solution .
(10) Avery has built its reputation on several well-liked bottled beers and a whole lot more taproom-only brews, usually among Boulder's most adventurous and varied.
(11) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
(12) This company allows customers to brew their own beer on its premises, rather than having to find space for the equipment at home.
(13) Fecundability of 104 healthy women attempting to become pregnant was halved by consumption of the equivalent of 1 cup of brewed coffee or more daily.
(14) Keurig Green Mountain, the single-serving coffee magnate, claims that its latest coffee brewing system, Keurig 2.0, “brings consumers more choice than ever”.
(15) During holding of coffee brews at elevated temperature, quinide is slowly hydrolysed.
(16) Opposition to Obama’s trade agreement has been brewing among congressional Democrats, whose concerns include the protection of US jobs, safe conditions for workers, and currency manipulation.
(17) Two preparations of coffee (instant coffee and freeze-dried home-brew coffee) were tested in different mutagenicity assays in germ cells as well as in somatic cells of Drosophila melanogaster.
(18) Updated at 5.02am GMT 4.48am GMT A tweet from the Australian Financial Review’s political correspondent Phillip Coorey: Phillip Coorey (@PhillipCoorey) Thunderstorm brewing over Parl House.
(19) A more intensive use of the potential of brewing yeasts in the biotechnological process of brewing is based on the knowledge of the genetic background of these microorganisms.
(20) This is why my Twitter and Facebook feeds – which consist mostly of people who brew, sell or drink beer – are scornful when I announce I'm working a one-off shift in the Rose and Crown, in Stoke Newington, north London.