Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who carouses; a drinker; a toper; a noisy reveler or bacchanalian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who carouses; a reveler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
carouses ; areveller
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who enjoys riotous drinking
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Examples
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When about half the folks raised their hands, he nodded with satisfaction, then recounted the night he spent in a Rhode Island lockup with the late Tom Blackaller, his skipper during the 1983 cup trials and a famous carouser.
It Is a Merry Life Angus Phillips 2011
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When about half the folks raised their hands, he nodded with satisfaction, then recounted the night he spent in a Rhode Island lockup with the late Tom Blackaller, his skipper during the 1983 cup trials and a famous carouser.
It Is a Merry Life Angus Phillips 2011
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For better or worse, I was a carouser, but when I got the news from Diane, it was like a cold shower.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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For better or worse, I was a carouser, but when I got the news from Diane, it was like a cold shower.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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For better or worse, I was a carouser, but when I got the news from Diane, it was like a cold shower.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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He has become gruff and cold, a far cry from the playful, expansive carouser and rabble-rouser of the film's opening scenes.
Come and Get It Ed Howard 2009
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But King's primary reputation has been as a classic carouser.
Sen. Jim King shows his soft side Peter Schorsch 2009
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As the ghost of the legendary actor John Barrymore in the new Broadway comedy "I Hate Hamlet," he's perfectly cast: he's a brilliant actor, he's mercurial and he once had a reputation as a world-class carouser, Now, a month after opening night, Williamson is staying right in character-and embroidering his own colorful legend.
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He grinned; just another good-hearted carouser stretching a night of harmless merriment into the new day.
Survived another workshop! zornhau 2006
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He grinned; just another good-hearted carouser stretching a night of harmless merriment into the new day.
Survived another workshop! zornhau 2006
asativum commented on the word carouser
More carous than thou.
September 20, 2008