PARTY ANIMALS Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

party animals

noun

plural of party animal

as in carousers

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Noun

Loaded trucks plodded through the crowd with people in their cargo beds throwing tomatoes at the revelers — who, in turn, hurled them at one another.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026
In late December, 350 troops were deployed to the city to boost public safety in the French Quarter as part of a heavy security presence for New Year’s celebrations a year after an attack on revelers on Bourbon Street killed 14 people.

— Jack Brook, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of revelers

Noun

Prosecutors also described the killings of Tyrek Hill, 25, and Timothy Schmidt, 19, as spontaneous and cold-blooded, his targets picked randomly among the tens of thousands of partygoers that night.

— Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026
Six other partygoers were treated for injuries at local hospitals.

— Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of partygoers

Noun

Now it was clogged with partiers.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
Below him, drunken partiers are stumbling back from a day in the unrelenting sun at the MGM Grand’s pool, many of them carrying inflatable tubes, and nearly all in various stages of undress.

— Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026

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