Dictionary

carousing en · ADJ

Meanings

1. 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. 1833, John Towne, Service Afloat, page 181:
   • A carousing group is almost always exclusively made up of men who are, more often than not, close in age, social position, and economic status. 2010, Avron Boretz, Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters:
   • A carousing zone is a place where the ritualism of generating antinomian excitement prevails and may even be institutionalized. 2009, Randall Collins, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory, page 256:

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Deriveds

carousingly

carousing en · NOUN

Meanings

1. carousal
   • the wild carousings of drunken revellers

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carousing en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of carouse
   form of carouse