booze up

booze (it) up

slang To drink a lot of alcohol. It's my birthday, so I'm definitely boozing it up tonight!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

booze up

Sl to drink heavily. Those guys are always boozing up. Stop boozing up and go home.
See also: booze, up
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

booze up

v.
1. To consume alcoholic beverages steadily: They were boozing up all night and didn't come home until sunrise.
2. To serve someone enough alcohol to cause drunkenness: The sales representative was well known for boozing up her clients after a sale. He doesn't seem friendly, but he's more sociable if you booze him up a bit.
3. To become drunk. Used in the passive: I was too boozed up to drive home.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

booze up

verb
See booze
See also: booze, up
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • booze (it) up
  • booze it up
  • booze it
  • booze
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • other than
  • other than (something)
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
References in periodicals archive
Asked if a booze up is still a useful bonding tool, O'Neill said: "As long as you're not overplaying the drinking, there's an element of that.
O'NEILL: BOOZING CAN WORK WONDERS
Even his friends can't keep up." Farrell will go out with a bang tonight with yet another booze up at his favourite bar.
Paul Martin's column: Colin's NEW home; HE VISITS TOP CLUB SIX TIMES IN TWO WEEKS
"But the Irish students just come on a big booze up.
IRISH 'BRATS' ARE BOOZE MAD IN US
The management all over this country are only able to manage booze ups in brewers but nowt else.
WEBCHAT; Drivers can't understand why Severn Bridge wasn't left open after staff sickness shut it
As a result, 33% hope the stag do tradition will die out, with 18% saying the prospect of being caught up in "compromising photos" meant the booze ups were no longer "a laugh".
Facebook is killing the British stag do; Blokes are scared videos of stupid antics will go viral
Mention the name Whitley Bay today and people are most likely to think of Bank Holiday booze ups. Ken said: "The Rex Hotel is seen as the centre of night life in Whitley Bay yet it started life as the Waverley temperance hotel in 1907."
Tale of two towns; Historian Ken Hutchinson has revisited the past of Whitley Bay and Seaton Sluice, detailing how one was once a tourist magnet, while the other was one of the biggest bottle producers in the world and an industrial powerhouse until tragedy struck. MIKE KELLY spoke to him
I'm banning Christmas, booze ups, carol singing and smiling until 2005.
On the Bounce: Christmas Message
The sound of a BBC boss defending bigwig booze ups was every bit as excruciating as MPs and their moats.
Culture must change in public bodies
THEY were once the ultimate bad boys of rock - leaving a trail of drug binges, booze ups and fist fights in their wake.
Drugs turn you into an unreal person. You end up wasting away your life.. doing absolutely nothing; OASIS STAR NOEL TALKS AHEAD OF IRISH GIG ON LEAVING HIS MAD, BAD PAST BEHIND
Elsewhere it's the usual big booze ups, usual bands and DJs, with door prices tripled just because it's December 31.
HOT MUSIC: Big night will be murder, he wrote
The Dublin-born film star is famed for his womanising and high-flying lifestyle of endless parties and big booze ups.
FARRELL: I'M TOO SCARED OF LOVE; Star says he'll never wed