jamborees

noun

plural of jamboree
as in sprees
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking he was a bit remorseful when he returned to the farm after his jamboree in town

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Recent Examples of jamborees The summer Fourth of July party is one of the city’s best jamborees. — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 30 June 2026 Boy Scout jamborees and women’s marches. — Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jamborees
  1. sprees
  2. drunks
  3. binges
  4. benders
Noun
  • The People’s Bank of China, for instance, has pushed for multi-month buying sprees, while the Reserve Bank of India has repatriated roughly 100 tonnes of gold back to domestic vaults.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 15 July 2026
  • The firm’s employees took Quaaludes, a sedative medication, like candy, hired prostitutes regularly, and held gambling sprees in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas.
    — Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 14 July 2026
Definition of sprees
Noun
  • For speeders, drunks, reckless drivers and the like.
    — Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 25 June 2026
  • This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots.
    — Kyle Wagner, New York Daily News, 3 June 2026
Definition of drunks
Noun
  • Numbing all that pain by going on The Lost Weekend-style binges of booze and drugs.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 15 July 2026
  • That total wasn’t built on epic reading binges or monastic retreats.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
Definition of binges
Noun
  • Outside his ivory tower, the heterosis disease is raging on, turning men whose appetites normally lay only in prostate orgasms, poppers, all-night benders, and chemsex into the kind of people who suddenly have an affection for a church wedding.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 May 2026
  • Tube benders also use stained glass, phosphorus and mercury to create other colors.
    — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2026
Definition of benders

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