A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
Synonyms
Examples for "riot"
Examples for "riot"
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Several people were stabbed before French riot police restored order, officials said.
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Police riot squads were used and several mounted police charges were made.
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Don't start no riot.' That ain't really what he want to say.
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Military personnel, riot police and water cannon have arrived at the scene.
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Twelve civilians and four soldiers died in the riot; scores were injured.
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Some friends of yours havin' an orgy you don't want to miss?
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Aidan had forgotten, in his shopping orgy, that he might need handkerchiefs.
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Goodbye cheerful fashion updates, hello to a veritable orgy of negative press.
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There is a really intense orgy scene that you cannot prepare for.
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The orgy of blood and lust and destruction lasted for two days.
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Both claims allow the police to make a prostitution and debauchery case.
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In between the very best drinks and drugs and debauchery, of course.
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In the chief cities of the cantons, debauchery and dissipation were rife.
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The reign of Charles II was pre-eminently distinguished for licentiousness and debauchery.
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Do not think that this means debauchery and profligacy; nothing like it.
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The chances for a debauch looked peaked and slim in the extreme.
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Night comes and robs me of the finish of the unbridled debauch.
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The unfortunate governor's ukase had precipitated a general debauch for all hands.
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The Maalem rose at last, somewhat unsteadily after his debauch of kief.
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It is splendid flesh, but he has been on a long debauch.
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I prefer the opera-balls to the saturnalia of the Goddess of Reason.
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With nightfall the saturnalia of death would begin again with redoubled force.
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I never see her, but amid all the saturnalia she haunts me.
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The saturnalia, subdued for a moment, threatened at times to renew itself.
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But the dram-drinking and nose-slitting of the saturnalia of Charles II.
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This is the immemorial bacchanal lurching through the kaleidoscope of the centuries.
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The individual I had seen at Baden,-thegamester, the bacchanal, the debauchee!
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His eye was alight, his color coppery, his air swagger, devil-may-care, bacchanal.
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It's usually a deeply technical bacchanal, but this year was not.
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At the height of the bacchanal I emptied the purse into a bottle.
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His search led him through all the drunken revelry of a Saturday night.
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Almost ubiquitously, such rites were followed with drunken revelry and, inevitably, much kissing.
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Spontaneous drunken revelry flared up on all sides, like forest fires.
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He will think I have chosen to spend my afterlife in drunken revelry.
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From their right, the sounds of drunken revelry pounded through the side of Hattigan's.
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Their life was dominated by suburban bacchanalia of alcohol, nicotine, gasoline, and kisses.
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The likely political dynamic would be a bacchanalia of cutting.
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But, sir, if you please, why have you brought this bacchanalia into your home?
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It is the next wave of aid, which is the main course in this bacchanalia.
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The frivolity and drunken recklessness was true to the spirit of that earlier forest bacchanalia.
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Everything changes, and this maxim applies even to the most famous Irish musical bacchanalia of modern times.
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Nine years after its inception, that hacker bacchanalia in the desert known as Defcon has gone corporate.
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Wasn't the mother offended by the bacchanalia?
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The morning after the bacchanalia in the saloon of the palace, the divan was covered with young patricians.
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He wanted to know why the band wasn't playing yet, and generally acted the businessman amid a bacchanalia.
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Burning Man, the annual art festival and bacchanalia held on Nevada's remote Black Rock Desert, is a 24-hour-a-day event.
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Was it a bacchanalia?
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The 6th Street strip stayed packed like a parade all week long, recalling the heyday of Atlanta's Freaknik bacchanalia on a daily basis.
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The competition's winner will be announced on Ash Wednesday, the day after the four-day annual pre lenten bacchanalia dubbed the world's biggest party.
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It was the vast rectangle of the piazza, thronged with the bacchanalia of carnival for three different periods during the year, that drew them.
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A game of pine-cone soccer was lifting long, vigorous tunnels of dust toward the moon, and elsewhere the bacchanalia was proceeding with unabated fervor.