ROISTER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they roister ... he / she / it roisters

Past simple: roistered

Past participle: roistered

-ing form: roistering

Meaning:

Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking

Example:

They were out carousing last night

Synonyms:

carouse; riot; roister

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "roister" is one way to...):

jollify; make happy; make merry; make whoopie; racket; revel; wassail; whoop it up (celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

roisterer (an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker)