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Meanings of carousing in English

Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.

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Usage of carousing in English
1
Very confident, the guard very negligent, the men carousing in the houses.
For Love of Country: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the ...
2
The last day of the payment is, invariably, one of general carousing.
Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest
3
I guessed he was feeling the aftereffects of our night's carousing too.
The Name of the Wind
4
Instead of sitting here carousing, we ought to go solemnly to bed.
The Song of the Lark
5
Wherever Brederode was, there, it was probable, would be much severe carousing.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 09: 1564-65
6
Such a medley of drinking, gambling, and carousing followed, as defies description.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
7
Chief Durand thinks it was kids who were out drinking and carousing.
11/22/63
8
Within, several men were carousing-dark-haired ,swarthyfellows, who seemed to be fishermen.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
9
You yourself saw me carousing the night of my own father's death!
In for a penny
10
Outside I could still hear the soldiers carousing on the grounds.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
11
She wasn't used to carousing all night and working all day.
The cottage
12
There began to be carousing in the second-class compartment next ahead of us.
The Ivory Trail
13
Wonderfully liberating for a UCC student carousing long after the buses stopped running.
The Irish Times
14
When they entered they were deafened with the noise of carousing and merrymaking.
Twilight Land
15
He was fifty-four years old, and well known for carousing with young women.
Impossible
16
The carousing gang downstairs was more than ever distasteful to me.
The Blood Ship
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United Kingdom
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