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Synonyms: Adjective
boisterous, hell-raising, knockabout, rambunctious, raucous, robustious, roisterous, rollicking, rumbustious [chiefly British]
Synonyms: Noun
bully, gangbanger, gangsta, gangster, goon, gorilla, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, mobster, mug, plug-ugly, punk, roughneck, ruffian, thug, tough, toughie (also toughy), yob [British], yobbo [British]
Antonyms: Adjective
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Examples of rowdy in a Sentence
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a rowdy game of basketball a rowdy but good-natured group of teenagersNoun
rowdies had overtaken the neighborhood and were threatening people on the street
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Kids, drunk and rowdy, line their stomachs with the cheap and tasty: basmati rice, dal, saag (which, bless them, tastes like it was made with just as much garlic as spinach). — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, "Loud, Crowded, Grease-Stained, and Gloriously Drunk: Where the World Eats After Hours," 8 Oct. 2018 Lastly, for sanity, a pair of sizable, pillowy leather noise-canceling headphones work wonders when faced with rowdy holiday crowds. — Madeline Fass, Vogue, "19 Vogue Editors Share Their Ideal Holiday Travel Outfit," 15 Nov. 2018 The standing-room crowd will have plenty of motivation to get rowdy, too, as a Creighton win would pull the Bluejays to within a game of the Musketeers in the Big East standings. — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, "Xavier begins stretch run atop Big East, at Creighton," 9 Feb. 2018 But here’s another theory: Oktoberfest has lost some of its earlier, rowdier appeal, and not by accident. — Paul Roberts, The Seattle Times, "Peak Oktober: Has Leavenworth’s famously beery festival reached its limit?," 26 Oct. 2018 The 40-minute distillery tour includes a comprehensive Jameson history, a comparative tasting, and a drink on the house at JJ's Bar, the downstairs whiskey bar that's seemingly always rowdy. — Melissa Kravitz, Condé Nast Traveler, "15 Best Things to Do in Dublin For Everyone," 19 June 2018 The arts festival grew rowdy after midnight, the Mercer County prosecutor’s office said, and had to be shut down by the police after fistfights broke out. — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, "Trenton Grieves After a Shooting at Event That Was ‘a Beacon’," 18 June 2018 Zenna takes up the corner spot at Bledsoe and Norwood with some other rowdy newcomers in the same strip. — Courtney Dabney, star-telegram, "Fort Worth’s first Zenna knows its Thai and Japanese niche | Fort Worth Star-Telegram," 16 May 2018 Baca’s band, Los TexManiacs, will play earlier on a day that sees the rowdy Desperadoz and Hometown Boys shutting the fest down. — Hector Saldana, San Antonio Express-News, "Musicians, fans get happy at Tejano Conjunto Festival," 16 May 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Although the Warriors chose to do nothing at the deadline, the Cavaliers were unloading players like club bouncers tossing rowdies into the street. — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, "Rivalry gets a reset as Cavaliers blow it up, Warriors stand pat," 8 Feb. 2018 But unlike Freedom Caucus rowdies, Tuesday Groupies are a low-key, low-profile bunch. — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, "Who Will Lead the Republican Moderates?," 8 Oct. 2017 The fourth position in the Eastern Conference and the accompanying right to host a USL playoff game is just seven points out of reach as the Tampa Bay Rowdies have the spot currently with 38 points. — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, "FC Cincinnati seeks to right ship in 1st match vs. Ottawa," 22 Aug. 2017 Rowdies owner Bill Edwards wants to rebuild Al Lang Stadium, which sits alongside the St. Petersburg harbor. — Brian Straus, SI.com, "MLS expansion race began with 12, but will enough viable bids even emerge?," 23 June 2017 Jack Whitehall plays passive hero Paul Pennyfeather, a divinity student expelled from Oxford for reasons beyond his control — his clothes were removed by rowdies — and forced to find work. — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, "'Decline and Fall' brings the macabre (yet elegant) school yardcomedy of Evelyn Waugh to life," 15 May 2017 Appalled at how absurdly little legislative progress has been made this year—despite unified GOP control of the government—the ultra-conservative rowdies are pushing for the unthinkable: a cancellation of Congress’s summer break. — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, "Vacation's All They Ever Wanted," 17 June 2017 Sunday Rowdies: (M) Leonard Carter 692; (W) Jamie Heintz 589. — Johnny Gorches, Post-Tribune, "Post-Tribune Bowling Scores," 3 May 2017 The president of The Edwards Group (led by Rowdies owner Bill Edwards) knows a thing or two about elections. — Brian Straus, SI.com, "MLS expansion latest: Tampa Bay's vote; Beckham's new investor; a pulse for St. Louis?," 28 Apr. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rowdy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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nounEnglish Language Learners Definition of rowdy (Entry 2 of 2)
: a person who causes trouble in a noisy way
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