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<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 26, 2023 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>carouse</strong> • \kuh-ROWZ ("OW" as in 'cow')\ • <em>verb</em><br /> <p><em>Carouse</em> means "to drink alcohol, make noise, and have fun with other people."</p> <p>// After a long night of <em>carousing</em> around Puerto Vallarta, the travelers settled into their hotel room. </p> <p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carouse#h1">See the entry ></a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>"While my best friend and I took in two rowdy Mardi Gras parades during our weekend trip, we didn't come just to <em>carouse</em>. I wanted to eat seafood <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/po'boy">po' boys</a> and hear music and experience Cajun culture as we relished the early spring Southern greenery. We wanted to experience this singular American city." — Laura Johnston, <em>The Plain Dealer</em> (Cleveland, Ohio), 19 Feb. 2023</p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p>Sixteenth-century English revelers toasting each other's health sometimes drank a brimming mug of booze straight to the bottom—drinking an "all-out," they called it. German <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tipple">tipplers</a> did the same and used the German expression for "all out"—<em>gar aus</em>. The French adopted the German term as <em>carous</em>, using the adverb in their expression <em>boire carous</em> ("to drink all out"). That phrase, with its idiomatic sense of "to empty the cup," led to <em>carrousse</em>, a French noun meaning "a large draft of liquor." And that's where English speakers picked up <em>carouse</em> in the 1500s, using it first as a direct borrowing of the French <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carouse#h2">noun</a>, which later took on the sense of a general "drunken <a href
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