The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Carousings

ka-rouz'-ingz (potois, dative plural of potos): This word is found only in the American Standard Revised Version and once only (1Pe 4:3). The King James Version translates it "banquetings." It is one of the Gentileexcesses of fleshly indulgence against which the Christians are warned by Peter.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr (1915). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.