riot (n.)

  1. a public act of violence by an unruly mob

    [ Syn: public violence ]

  2. a state of disorder involving group violence

    [ Syn: rioting ]

  3. a joke that seems extremely funny

    [ Syn: belly laugh , sidesplitter , howler , thigh-slapper , scream , wow ]

  4. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

    [ Syn: orgy , debauch , debauchery , saturnalia , bacchanal , bacchanalia , drunken revelry ]

    riot (v.)

  1. take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot; Students were rioting everywhere in 1968'

  2. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; They were out carousing last night

    [ Syn: carouse , roister ]

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