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Recent Examples of kegger
Hours after her ex’s new girlfriend jumps her at a kegger in the woods, Erin’s body turns up in a nearby creek.
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Judy Berman, Time, 16 Apr. 2021
This mysterious liquid-to-solid transition is more like teenagers caught at a kegger: frozen exactly in place, with no order whatsoever.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
To help their kids navigate this difficult school year, many parents have made a choice to focus on sending positive rather than punitive messages in the hopes that their kids will make smart choices — even when they're tempted to go to a kegger or run around campus maskless.
—Lambeth Hochwald, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
Even more cringeworthy are the exhumations of other ’80s and ’90s subcultures: pentagrams drawn on Trapper Keepers, unwieldy tubs of muscle powder, whiteboy ciphers drowning out Fugees CDs at backyard keggers in the ramifying burbs.
—New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
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Judy Berman, Time, 16 Apr. 2021
This mysterious liquid-to-solid transition is more like teenagers caught at a kegger: frozen exactly in place, with no order whatsoever.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
To help their kids navigate this difficult school year, many parents have made a choice to focus on sending positive rather than punitive messages in the hopes that their kids will make smart choices — even when they're tempted to go to a kegger or run around campus maskless.
—Lambeth Hochwald, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
Even more cringeworthy are the exhumations of other ’80s and ’90s subcultures: pentagrams drawn on Trapper Keepers, unwieldy tubs of muscle powder, whiteboy ciphers drowning out Fugees CDs at backyard keggers in the ramifying burbs.
—New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kegger
Noun
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The Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns went at it in Week 6, with the Steelers cruising to a 23-9 blowout win.—
Anne Erickson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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The tension between Wall Street and Main Street was on display this week as the country’s top banks reported blowout earnings, while regional lenders spooked investors about risks lurking in their loan books.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
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His inability to make hard decisions or abstain from becoming a maudlin, clingy drunk had transformed me from his girlfriend and lover into his mother and disciplinarian.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Stephen Geer pleaded guilty Monday to vehicular homicide while driving under the influence and vehicular assault for a drunk-driving crash last November that killed a Golden police officer and injured three other people, according to the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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The rain was steady, as was the traffic, but everyone was also keeping an eye out for a junkie on a bender.—
Joe Dwinell,
Boston Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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For a man who once hurtled through the windshield of his car following a bender, this was a testimony.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
15 Oct. 2025
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Principal Eric Olsen was amazed by his first jamboree back in 2008.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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Whatever the nuances of the text, the audience must end the show clapping along to an upbeat curtain-call jamboree.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Sources told the author that more than 40 women attended the orgy.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
23 Sep. 2025
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The orgy comments and Zelenskyy criticism seemed to have kicked off a campaign against Cawthorn within the GOP to ensure he wasn’t reelected.—
Danielle Battaglia,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Kegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kegger. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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