To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering.
We are all going to carouse at Brian's tonight.
To drink to excess.
If I survive this headache, I promise no more carousing at Brian’s.
A large draught of liquor.
[…] therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies to Ilford, where I againe reſted, and was by the people of the towne and countrey there-about very very wel welcomed, being offred carowſes in the great ſpoon, one whole draught being able at that time to haue drawne my little wit drye; […]
A drinking bout; a carousal.
The early feast and late carouse.
From Middle French carousser (“to quaff, drink, swill”), from German gar aus (literally “all out, quite out”), from gar austrinken (“to drink up entirely, guzzle”). Compare German Garaus.
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