(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.
Piss
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To discharge urine, to urinate.
(n.) Urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(2) In the most hard-hitting attack on the Labour leader by any of his MPs since Ukip squeezed the party’s vote in the Heywood and Middleton byelection, Field accused Miliband of “pissing while Rome burns”.
(3) We haven't changed that much, we still take the piss out of each other, there's an understanding there that hasn't gone away.
(4) Brand isn’t the messiah (or just a naughty boy, for that matter) and his message pisses off plenty of people.
(5) Then there's me and my buddy Ralph Garman , who does a daily radio show in LA, doing our entertainment podcast Hollywood Babble-On , which is basically just two guys who've worked in showbiz long enough to have informed opinions, sitting around taking the piss out of the entertainment industry.
(6) Or the story about how Rich was en route from Switzerland to Finland and had to order his jet to reverse course at 20,000ft to avoid being arrested by the FBI at Helsinki airport; or the secret tunnel he built between the 'Dallas building' and the Glashof restaurant opposite so he could slip out to lunch without fear of being assassinated; or the time he was held hostage in Azerbaijan while his captors considered whether or not to sell him to the Russians (who were allegedly pissed off with Rich for nicking their reserves of gold and other precious metals), or the rumours that Rich had slipped in and out of Britain and the US on numerous occasions under false passports.
(7) I haven’t even watched it again because I’m so pissed off about the first one, because I thought Manny could have made that fight much easier than he did.
(8) Of course, after Hitler got into power and Low started, beautifully, to take the piss, Low, along with his cartooning colleagues Illingworth, Vicky and even Heath Robinson, was placed on the Gestapo's deathlist.
(9) The catch is that the wine has been spiked with an extinguished cigarette, bogies, phlegm, piss and maggots; Ryle tackles it with vigour.
(10) Rather than open downstairs and piss off the council, I decided to take it more slowly,” he says.
(11) To my teenage self, who wanted to join Baader-Meinhof and rob banks hand-in-hand with my dead-eyed dream-date Magdalena Kopp, she was the ultimate Hollywood bad girl, always pissing off the right people.
(12) But I know they will complement my weaknesses and help me make better decisions because they will challenge me and, at times, that will piss me off because I want them to think like me and be as excited as me,” he says.
(13) Charly Rexach played for Barcelona between 1965 and 1981 and talks about winning the cup, "their cup", as a way of "really pissing [Real Madrid] off."
(14) The only advantage to being considered insane is, Shields says, that "people don't get as angry with you when you piss them off".
(15) "I sometimes got the feeling that Kurt enjoyed that I pissed people off.
(16) It was written about in the press, and taken the piss out of on other late-night shows.
(17) After the game we shake hands and everything else – what the hell, you’re going to get pissed off?
(18) The only response in these circumstances is to do what the Guardian did – throw your hands up and take the piss .
(19) He said: "The office said she's taking the piss here.
(20) I had phoned up all the national newspapers to say that “something big” was going to happen, and they were a bit pissed off because it wasn’t the dramatic stunt they thought it would be.