carousing

adj

1. Engaged in or associated with the act of carousing.

   “I remember I was once of a party of between twenty and thirty officers, from a squadron of four or five line-of-battle ships, and some smaller vessels, which met together at a tavern at St. Pierre's, Martinico, when a carousing scene took place, so characteristically unique, that it would require the pen of Scott, or the pencil of Cruikshank , to do it justice.”

   “A carousing zone is a place where the ritualism of generating antinomian excitement prevails and may even be institutionalized.”

   “A carousing group is almost always exclusively made up of men who are, more often than not, close in age, social position, and economic status.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of carouse

noun

1. carousal

   “the wild carousings of drunken revellers”