booze cruise
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8.2
- noun
- /buz kruːz/
- Informal
:
crucero de copas
- Each night, the guesthouse sponsored a booze cruise on the lake at dusk.
Examples
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This Oriental-chic floating bar is Hong Kong's ultimate booze cruise, taking guests for a Prosecco-fueled 45-minute voyage around Victoria Harbour.
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Booze cruises are awesome in the dead of a Pennsylvania winter.
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Bring on the booze cruise.
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And those no booze cruises, by the way, are a riot.
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I went on the booze cruise around the lake and sat up on top of the boat, chatting with my new friends.
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Y'all, we got a booze cruise in 10 and then the foam party.
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And so Red and Blue took a booze cruise across the ocean blue, but they were attacked by pirates and they were all beheaded!
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This booze cruise is for college house dudes and dudettes only!
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Families first, cruise, booze cruise, wife's wifey squad.
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Every summer, we love to organize a booze cruise where friends can enjoy drinks and dancing on the water.
Synonyms
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8.8
A party where people drink beer from a large keg
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9.6
A casual gathering where people drink alcohol
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9.9
A wild party with a lot of drinking and loud, out-of-control behavior
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9.0
A party where people drink a lot and have fun
To visit several pubs in one night, drinking at each one
How Lively
- Slang
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8.9
- Informal
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8.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an excursion on a boat where alcohol is consumed' is directly and predictably built from 'booze' (alcohol) + 'cruise' (a leisure boat trip). Although informal register is signalled by 'booze', the compositional logic is clear and a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Booze cruise comes from the clear picture of people taking a short trip on a boat to drink together: booze means alcohol and cruise means a trip on the water. So it now means 'a party or excursion on a boat where alcohol is served'.