carousing
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Adjective
[edit]carousing (comparative more carousing, superlative most carousing)
- Engaged in or associated with the act of carousing.
- 1833, John Towne, Service Afloat, page 181:
- 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.
- 2009, Randall Collins, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory, page 256:
- A carousing zone is a place where the ritualism of generating antinomian excitement prevails and may even be institutionalized.
- 2010, Avron Boretz, Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]carousing
- present participle and gerund of carouse
Noun
[edit]carousing (plural carousings)
- carousal
- the wild carousings of drunken revellers