carousing

Packed bars with carousing revelers spilling onto clogged streets.

We’ll always have memories of that splendid spring afternoon, from our friends gustily singing the inappropriate but undeniably irresistible “Where I Wanna Be”—it’s a song about a man who wants to leave his longtime girlfriend because he’s not done carousing—during the reception to our fathers giving exactly the sort of touching but long-winded toasts we expected from them.

The flamenco dancer Olga Pericet began topless, curled up on the floor like a beached mermaid or a woman recovering from a night of carousing.

I was in New York doing a show and perhaps going through some melancholic times and carousing too much and enjoying Broadway, but not really that happy myself.

MacGowan died Nov. 30 at the age of 65 after a lifetime of drinking, carousing and writing songs that fused Irish tradition with the spirit of punk.