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booze cruise en · NOUN
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(UK) A brief trip from Britain to France or Belgium in order to buy alcohol (or tobacco) in bulk quantities without paying excise duty.
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(Australia, US) A recreational trip on a cruise ship or boat usually tailored to young people, with the expectation of heavy consumption of alcoholic beverages.
They told us the corporation had taken their top salesmen to the Bahamas on a luxury liner booze cruise. Actually it had been a themed booze cruise, under the banner “The Best Damn Mortgage Company. Period.”
2009, Larry McDonald, Patrick Robinson, A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Incredible Inside Story of the Collapse of the Lehman Brothers, page 185:“Goddamnit, Petey, you know I hate booze cruises at the best of times. A bunch of drunken assholes that make a piss-up at home look like a Tupperware Party.”
2004, Joseph D. Oliver, Nancy E. Oliver, On the Rebound, page 108:1998 November, Queen City Chronicle: Wedding Belles, Cincinnati Magazine, page 13,
I was still a little tipsy, see, because Tony proposed to me on a booze cruise. You know a booze cruise? That′s where they take a fishing boat and wash all the fish guts off of it at night and turn it into a party boat.
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booze cruise en · VERB
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(Internet, humorous) to drive under the influence of alcohol
As I booze cruised home from the function, I gazed gleefully at the beautiful rising sun.
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booze cruiser · booze cruising