What is the meaning of carousing?

verb

  • Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
    • usage: "They were out carousing last night"

adjective

  • Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.
    • usage: "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
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