"carousing" in the verb sense
1. carouse, roister, riot
engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
"They were out carousing last night"
"carousing" in the adjective sense
1. bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic
used of riotously drunken merrymaking
"a night of bacchanalian revelry"
"carousing bands of drunken soldiers"
"orgiastic festivity"
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