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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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Swap them out for wavy blowouts, straightened hair, and more styles.—
Isabel Garcia,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Belichick’s Tar Heels scored on their opening possession in a Labor Day prime-time matchup with TCU, only to see the Horned Frogs score the next 41 points in a 48-14 blowout as the six-time Super Bowl winner watched with blank stares and Carolina fans began heading for the exit ramps early.—
Robert Abitbol,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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Stray Bullets • In this week’s post-credits scene, Adrian removes the pants of the drunk, sleeping John Economos and plants a tender kiss on his forehead.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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The film stars Boon as Tommy, a 19-year-old hooligan who wakes up from an all-night bender in the basement of a strange suburban home, bound with a chain around his neck.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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In my many decades of dealing with the city and state, this proposal ranks right up there as one of the all-time mind benders.—
Donna Frye,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Aug. 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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Not open to the public, the jamboree is a few days for chefs to be cooks and comrades; to enjoy an otherworldly space in the woods, let the stresses of their daily grinds fall away, and celebrate creativity and friendship.—
Kristin L. Wolfe,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 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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During the orgy sequence in Episode 1, Peacemaker discovers a door in his late father, Auggie’s (Robert Patrick) house that leads to a parallel universe where all that is wrong in his current world is right in the new dimension.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Kegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kegger. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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