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carousing

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verb

present participle of carouse
as in drinking
to take part in drunken revelry spent all of shore leave carousing with his mates

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Noun
  • Alternatively, the Perry Lane Hotel, as well as the brand-new, Ann Savannah, will put you in the heart of the merrymaking.
    Madeline Weinfield, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2025
  • In fact, ancient Romans celebrated the day with a fertility festival with animal sacrifices and drunken merrymaking.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Other home remedies are drinking hot tea with honey and lemon and breathing in steam from a hot shower.
    Amelia MacIntyre, Verywell Health, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Many were drinking alcohol from coolers at the home, the release said.
    Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Standing in the way of such revelry is a pair of angry recent champions.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • This Pride, expect fewer rainbow logos and less corporate revelry.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Some years at Cannes, the Med’s most effervescent seasonal kickoff, the bubbles and spice of the social froth provide the jollity.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Sign up Eating and drinking (Image credit: Riverside Luxury Cruises) The first thing to say about eating on The Ravel is that there is no Captain's Table or forced jollity with other passengers.
    James Rampton, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Director Scott Ellis keeps things light, bouncy, and maximizes the hilarity.
    Christian Lewis, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The hilarity of the script isn’t just built from belly laughs, of which there are plenty, but also crafted with coping with the fear that comes from one’s identity.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With the Red Army closing in, such gatherings, expressions of a desperate gaiety, a fin d’une époque efflorescence, weren’t rare.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • With the Red Army closing in, such gatherings, expressions of a desperate gaiety, a fin d’une époque efflorescence, weren’t rare.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Carousing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carousing. Accessed 31 May. 2025.

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