carousing
Collocations
4VERB + CAROUSING
leave, shore
CAROUSING + NOUN
friends, group
PREP.
with
ADV.
almost
Definitions
adj
Engaged in or associated with the act of carousing.
I remember I was once of a party of between twenty and thirty officers, from a squadron of four or five line-of-battle ships, and some smaller vessels, which met together at a tavern at St. Pierre's, Martinico, when a carousing scene took place, so characteristically unique, that it would require the pen of Scott, or the pencil of Cruikshank , to do it justice.
A carousing zone is a place where the ritualism of generating antinomian excitement prevails and may even be institutionalized.
noun
carousal
the wild carousings of drunken revellers
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — used of riotously drunken merrymaking
- bacchanalian
- bacchanal
- bacchic
- orgiastic
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5I remember I was once of a party of between twenty and thirty officers, from a squadron of four or five line-of-battle ships, and some smaller vessels, which met together at a tavern at St. Pierre's,
WiktionaryA carousing zone is a place where the ritualism of generating antinomian excitement prevails and may even be institutionalized.
WiktionaryA carousing group is almost always exclusively made up of men who are, more often than not, close in age, social position, and economic status.
Wiktionarythe wild carousings of drunken revellers
WiktionaryTom spent all of shore leave carousing with friends.
Tatoeba · #10155962