carousing

Plural: carousings

Verb

Verb Forms: caroused, carousing, carouses

• Engaging in a noisy, lively, and often drunken celebration.
• engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
  • "They were out carousing last night"
• present participle and gerund of carouse

Adjective Satellite

• used of riotously drunken merrymaking
  • "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"

Adj

• Engaged in or associated with the act of carousing.

Noun

• The act of engaging in lively, festive drinking and merrymaking.
• carousal

Examples

• After a particularly grueling Scrabble tournament, the players went carousing to celebrate their wins and commiserate losses.
• All the CAROUSING after the Words With Friends tournament made it hard to focus on strategy for the next round.

Synonyms

bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, carouse, orgiastic, riot, roister

Anagrams of carousing