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A party that files its own incident report by morning.
means A noisy, drunken bout of drinking and revelry — the kind of party that leaves evidence.
from English actually got this wrong twice over. It comes from 'carouse,' which arrived in the 1500s from the German drinking phrase 'gar aus trinken' — literally 'to drink all out,' meaning to empty the cup completely. Once 'carouse' settled into English as both verb and noun, 'carousal' formed from it in the 1700s — but by sound and spelling it got tangled up with the unrelated word 'carousel' (the merry-go-round, from French, ultimately tracing to an Italian word for a knights' tournament game). The two words share no real ancestry, just a confusing resemblance — which is fitting, since a good carousal can leave you feeling like you've been on a carousel anyway.
- not carousel
- spelling cousin but zero amusement park rides
- etymology
- from drinking toast gar aus meaning all out
- root word
- carouse means to drink deeply and often
- modern use
- mostly survives in hangover-adjacent literary writing