rowdier; rowdiest
: coarse or boisterous in behavior : rough
also
: characterized by such behavior
rowdy local bars
Examples of rowdy in a Sentence
Adjective
a rowdy game of basketball
a rowdy but good-natured group of teenagers
Noun
rowdies had overtaken the neighborhood and were threatening people on the street
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Susannah Cahalan, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
This isn't the first time Ripa and Consuelos have dealt with a rowdy crowd.
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The Chicken Jockey outbreak isn’t so far away from the last time theaters were under siege by rowdy youths.
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Based on a screenplay by Schulman, the film revolves around three fathers who accompany their daughters on a rowdy junior high school class on an idyllic archipelago island and are reminded of their own teenage traumas.
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Adjective
At various points, the judge threatened to throw the crowd out for being too rowdy.
—Susannah Cahalan, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
This isn't the first time Ripa and Consuelos have dealt with a rowdy crowd.
—Esther Kang, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
The Chicken Jockey outbreak isn’t so far away from the last time theaters were under siege by rowdy youths.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
Based on a screenplay by Schulman, the film revolves around three fathers who accompany their daughters on a rowdy junior high school class on an idyllic archipelago island and are reminded of their own teenage traumas.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Rowdy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rowdy. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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rowdy
1 of 2 adjective
row·dy
ˈrau̇d-ē 
rowdier; rowdiest
: rough or loud in behavior
rowdiness
noun
rowdy
2 of 2 noun
plural rowdies
: a rowdy person
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