to carouse

Examples

• All

• I spent the day fishing and carousing around.

  Blog text (28)

• Should I at any time in the future be tempted to carouse or even take one little drink, please play this for me to remind me of my promise.

  Shoot or Be Shot! (2002)

• No, but they drink and carouse all night.

  The Musketeer (2001)

• A woman carouses with a bunch of miners at a table.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Cobb and Speaker were carousing with obvious gambler types.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Rowdies caroused on weekends at Mad Sheep Knob.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Bill Beagle was carousing in a swank velvet chair with a bottle of high-priced liquor in his fist.

  Fiction book (1991)

• You are carousing with the lively man-about-town and rake, your oldest school chum, Master Harvey Dent, Gotham solicitor.

  Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

• Last weekend, we decided to carouse at the local pub, singing and dancing late into the night.

• The group of friends loved to carouse during holidays, celebrating with laughter and plenty of drinks.

Synonyms

R

to riot

vsto carouse

• Informal

4 7.1

To celebrate loudly and behave in a wild noisy way

focuses more on drinking rather than general noisy celebration

R

to roister

vsto carouse

• Archaic

1 9.9

To party loudly and wildly, often drinking a lot

emphasizes drinking and noisy enjoyment as the main activity

Antonyms

S

to sober up

33 4.6

To stop being drunk and feel normal again

A

to abstain

18 5.0

To choose not to take something, often for health or religious reasons

How Noisy

to revel

17 4.9

to carouse

• Archaic

4 9.3

to party

• Informal

298 3.0

Surface Forms

Etymology