Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.
Synonyms
Examples for "racket"
Examples for "racket"
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Martins said, 'The police have implicated Harry in a very serious racket.
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Still, this was about racket, not reality, and Dominique probably was right.
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To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket.
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Later she said of her racket abuse: I just threw my racket.
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What with all this racket, I can't really hear you too good.
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Only the presence at table of their leaders kept the wassail down.
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Orgies and wild wassail hold a mocking sway in the courts of death.
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With wine and wassail they nerved themselves for the desperate deed.
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Oh, to be young again an' not spill life in wassail!
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In 1599 Arthur Chichester brought this wassail bowl from his native Devon to Ulster.
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To-night you may jollify; but after that you are under strict discipline, for a month at least.
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Tain't natchul fer folks not to git together an' laugh an' be happy an' fergit dere quarrels an' dere troubles an' jollify deyselves.
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You cannot imagine how a little praise jollifies us poor authors to the marrow of our bones.
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And if I make whoopie pies I won't be able to stand the temptation.
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These men eat and make merry; let it be their funeral feast.
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Nana was struck and did her best to make merry about it.
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To make merry in camp is not all of a ranger's life.
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And Eumaeus answered: Eat, stranger, and make merry with what thou hast.
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Eat, luckless stranger, and make merry with such fare as is here.
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I play, to make happy the children, to get bread for me.
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But look at the good you can do-thepeople you can make happy.
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May Venus make happy your next pursuit of a pretty slave.
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What was wealth good for anyhow, save to make happy those we love?
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Photo: Supplied Which plants make happy bedfellows and which don't?
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He has worked her to whoop it up for him down there.
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Cent., as he had accumulated his full line, and was ready to whoop it up.
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They would fairly whoop it up.
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It's a race, of course; but you're too much of a horseman to whoop it up this soon.
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Don't you ever whoop it up?'
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In this they pipe and revel; in this they sing and dance.
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I am a man; I revel in trouble; you are a girl.
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And I rather revel in it-asI do in the east wind.
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The dance hall revel at the Elysian Fields was in full swing.
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Nor does the revel end then; it is prolonged for eight days.
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So, as I said before you know I revel in his writing.
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Her daughter was to revel in the comforts and elegancies of life.
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Break it down into seven days and revel in the dramatic landscape.
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However, he soon should be in that city and revel in them.
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She had stolen away from Lochias in the midst of a revel.
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And this done, she would revel in the enjoyment of fresh air.
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RP: I would tell them to stop and revel in their accomplishments.
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At the end is a final revel of the first dancing tune.
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But I knew I must not revel in this place too long.
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The signs were that they had come from a revel just dismissed.
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Natives seem to revel in water contaminated by all kind of horrors.
