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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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Adebayo only scored four points and didn’t hit another three-pointer after his first-quarter eruption, but the Heat still cruised to a blowout win behind its balanced attack.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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Weathering the team's quarterback crisis, Jefferson reached a boiling point on Thursday night during a blowout loss to the Los Angeles Chargers.—
Trevor Squire,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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Tony talked so fast, like Scorsese on a cocaine bender, cracking jokes and losing his temper.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
25 Oct. 2025
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That’s about half of what archetypal metal-bender General Motors garnered in the same span.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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The four libertines are fascists engaged in a last orgy of terror as the country slides from their control.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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No orgies, no drug madness, no trouble with the law.—
Touré,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Kegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kegger. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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