• (British, America) IPA: /kəˈɹaʊz/

carouse (carouses, present participle carousing; past and past participle caroused)

1. (intransitive) To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering. [from 1550s]

   We are all going to carouse at Brian's tonight.

2. (intransitive) To drink to excess.

   If I survive this headache, I promise no more carousing at Brian's.

• German: Gelage abhalten, eine Gasterei veranstalten (archaic)
• Italian: gozzovigliare, fare baldoria
• Russian: кути́ть

• German: zechen, saufen, bechern
• Italian: ubriacarsi, sbronzarsi
• Russian: пья́нствовать

carouse (plural carouses)

1. A large draught of liquor.

   • quote en

   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene viii]:

     Drink carouses to the next day's fate.

2. A drinking match; a carousal.
   • 1725, Homer; [William Broome], transl., “Book II”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646 ↗:

     The early feast and late carouse.