boozeroo

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• boozeroo — /buzəˈru/ (say boohzuh rooh) noun NZ Colloquial 1. a drinking spree. 2. a public house …  

• booze — by 1768, to drink a lot (v.), variant of M.E. bouse (c.1300), from M.Du. busen to drink heavily, related to M.H.G. bus (intrans.) to swell, inflate, of unknown origin. The noun is recorded by 1821, perhaps 1714; reinforced by name of Philadelphia …   Etymology dictionary

• -eroo — Colloquial a suffix forming nouns referring to specified activities or actions, as in boozeroo, switcheroo. {originally US, from the 1930s; popularised by US newspaper columnist Walter Winchell; origin uncertain, possibly mimicking such words as… …