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noun

as in merrymaking

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verb

present participle of carouse
as in drinking
to take part in drunken revelry spent all of shore leave carousing with his mates

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Recent Examples of carousing
Noun
Brawls, arrests, pot smoking (remember, this is the 1950s), multiple affairs, and carousing were trademark Mitchum habits. — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 The two of them party hard enough and often enough that local police officer Montgomery (Missi Pyle) knows them by name; when some particularly irresponsible carousing crosses a line, however, they’re slapped with a community service sentence. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 July 2026 Illustration by Patricia Bolaños The art of carousing has long featured a mystical element. — Marina Harss, New Yorker, 10 July 2026 Two teens who engaged a Waymo car for an afternoon of carousing were busted after the vehicle delivered them to the San Mateo police. — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 7 July 2026 Open Thursday to Sunday during the day, La Copine is a respite after a long hike — or a long night of carousing. — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026 There was drunken carousing and little street parking to be had on big college bar weekends and the Indianapolis Art Fair weekend. — Shari Rudavsky, IndyStar, 22 Mar. 2026 The carousing reached its apogee on the final night. — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2024
Verb
Three sitting rooms are complemented by a further three members’ social spaces for carousing in, concealed behind a subtle screen (here, DJs including Goldierocks make appearances, and mobile snaps are banned; staff politely place a sticker over mobile camera lenses). — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026 The team were meek in defeat, but after a weekend carousing and communing in central London, Newcastle fans arrived at Wembley with a collective hangover. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026 But that doesn’t add much beyond three crusty Báthory ancestors carousing drunkenly in their coffins. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carousing
  1. merrymaking
  2. drinking
  3. revelry
  4. reveling
  5. jollity
  6. bingeing
  7. hilarity
  8. gaiety
Noun
  • Nor did great merrymaking surround its 2001 move to pioneer quantitative easing.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Once ground was completely covered with shards of tableware, folks journeyed from their seats into the center of the room for more dancing and merrymaking.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Definition of merrymaking
Verb
  • Jennifer Messemer-Skold, the communications director for Miami-Dade Water and Sewer, said the department’s stance is that the county’s tap water meets all current requirements and residents don’t need a filter to be drinking high quality water.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
  • As Ryan prepared to return to the United States, he and three members of the press were shot and killed, prompting Jones to enact a mass suicide plan involving drinking a fruit drink laced with poison and sedatives.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of drinking
Noun
  • And with training camp beginning Saturday, attention again has been diverted to the incident that remains unresolved — an allegation that Nacua left bite marks on a woman’s shoulder during an evening of revelry.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
  • Throughout my 20s, a crew of us would take an annual European ski trip that was often more focused on après ski revelry than downhill pursuits.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026
Definition of revelry
Verb
  • Right in the middle of cheering, reveling masses was MARTA — a connective system of veins that efficiently moved the happy throngs.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Mary Murphy, a young reporter from Queens, had been at Shea that night, reveling with her sisters in the upper loge section along the first-base line.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 31 July 2026
Definition of reveling
Noun
  • The finale is an ambiguous mix of jollity and agitation, with a piccolo shrieking above a militant march.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Winston Peacock’s Ghost of Christmas Present is especially winning with decidedly John Belushi-esque jollity.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Dec. 2025
Definition of jollity
Verb
  • This is someone’s Super Bowl, if the Super Bowl was about binging 15 pounds of cased beef tubes.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Michelle has also faced ongoing comments on her appearance ‒ a 2011 cartoon depicted her as overweight and bingeing on hamburgers and more recently, she has been accused of taking Ozempic to lose weight.
    — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 15 June 2026
Definition of bingeing
Noun
  • The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt, telling the story of these Texan wildmen and their real-life moments of brilliance and hilarity, with revelations of profound sadness.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 July 2026
  • Roisin Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan and Caoilfhionn Dunne anchor a top-notch ensemble as a trio of friends whose trip from Belfast to Ireland’s County Donegal for a funeral leads to unearthed secrets, hilarity and emotion.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
Definition of hilarity
Noun
  • Anchoring all this is Fiomona’s open-hearted and entertaining performance, deftly moving between emotionally heavy dramatic scenes and others full of gaiety.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • The night carried a distinctly American blend of violence and gaiety.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026
Definition of gaiety

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