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having fun with others in a noisy manner while drinking alcohol- They were out carousing last night.
carousing = having fun in a noisy manner while drinking alcohol
- ...one night, as he was carousing among drunken companions, a letter was put into his hand.Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock;Shakespeare -- Macbeth
- As the night went on, there was drinking and carousing.Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- — Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows: The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- After work Papi and Chuito caroused in the bars on Smith and Elm Streets and every few nights Papi stayed over in Perth Amboy.Junot Diaz -- Drown
- My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- I'm sure he had quite a nice cultured mind, when he wasn't carousing around.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- The next Legree heard of his mother was, when, one night, as he was carousing among drunken companions, a letter was put into his hand.Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Respectable citizens of the town were awakened in the early dawn by rowdies carousing in the streets.Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
- The last faded sobriety of a violent midnight carouser who had loved the boys of three generations roughly, and made some of them into gunslingers.Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- Descending from the tree, Eragon wandered the shadows of Ellesmera and observed the elves carousing in the fever of the night.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- One was the great fire on shore, by which the defeated pirates lay carousing in the swamp.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
- At the same time he was more of a carouser and spendthrift than ever.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- As the chief of police [in Emporia] said, they go home at night and go to bed rather than carouse around town.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- I guessed he was feeling the aftereffects of our night's carousing too.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- Then we cockbirds will have a jolly carouse to ourselves!Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- See, here, a rope of pearl; and each, more orient Than that the brave Egyptian queen caroused: Dissolve and drink them.Ben Jonson -- Volpone
- He let them go carouse, keeping just the boys, to help him hold the herd.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- THE ANIMALS Carousing, to-day!Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
carousing = having fun with others in a noisy manner while drinking alcohol