carousals

noun

plural of carousal
as in drunks
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking came home tired and hungover after an all-night carousal with his friends

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  1. drunks
  2. sprees
  3. binges
Noun
  • Lee, emerging from the dark woods beyond McMann’s cabin, gets picked up by a guy who nicknames himself the Boontill Oracle, a do-gooder who waits outside highway bars to give safe rides to local drunks.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Instead of collectivity, there is a certain kind of animal community, or one that the poems’ speakers—children, old men, drunks, prostitutes—often stand apart from.
    — Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of drunks
Noun
  • Anthropic, Meta and Google have since reported similar autonomous hacking sprees.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, every day, SNAP theft sprees keep popping up in new corners of the country.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of sprees
Noun
  • As Netflix builds its library of shows, live events bring people back to the service and keep them signed up between binges.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • What had started as regular media binges in college had spiraled out of control.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of binges
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