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plural of wassail
as in sprees
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking woke up with a terrible headache from a wild wassail the night before

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wassails

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wassail
as in drinks
to take part in drunken revelry the knights feasted and wassailed for three days after the battlefield victory

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Noun
  • Others went very practical, like Kelly Rowland’s trip to the supermarket, or embraced their inner child, as Donald Glover and Tiffany Haddish did with their sugar sprees.
    Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
  • This spring, college hoops teams went on staggering spending sprees, with some individual players set to earn as much as entire teams did a season ago.
    Brendan Marks, New York Times, 26 July 2026
Verb
  • The result is great for work, drinks with the girls, and dinner reservations alike.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2026
  • What was interesting is that after work, pretty much everyone goes down to the pub and drinks beers for a couple of hours before heading home.
    Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • For speeders, drunks, reckless drivers and the like.
    Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 25 June 2026
  • This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots.
    Kyle Wagner, New York Daily News, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • At first, it was thought that over time, governments would want to allow growth to organically whittle down debt-to-income ratios, which is the ideal way to pay down massive peacetime spending and tax cut binges.
    Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Adulting right doesn’t mean giving up your late-night movie binges.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 3 June 2026
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“Wassails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wassails. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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