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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

carousing = having fun with others in a noisy manner while drinking alcohol

— 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

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