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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
  2. v. To drink excessively.
  3. n. Carousal.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A hearty drink or full draught of liquor: as, to quaff or drink carouse.
  2. n. A carousal; a noisy banquet.
  3. n. Synonyms See carousal.
  4. To drink freely and with jollity; revel noisily or intemperately.
  5. To drink up; drink to the bottom.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering.
  2. v. intransitive To drink to excess.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A large draught of liquor.
  2. n. A drinking match; a carousal.
  3. v. To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels.
  4. v. Archaic To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
  2. v. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French carousser ("to quaff, drink, swill"), from German gar aus ("quite out"), from gar austrinken ("to drink up entirely, guzzle"). More at drink. (Wiktionary)
  2. German garaus, all out, drink up : gar, completely (from Middle High German, from Old High German garo) + aus, out, up; see auslander. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • chained_bear "I felt very unwell, this whole day," soldiers frequently noted in their journals, "from last night's carouse."
    —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 111 Jun 18, 2010

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