roister
/ˈrɔɪstə
/verb [no object]
Enjoy oneself or celebrate in a noisy or boisterous way: workers from the refinery roistered in the bars...
- The first is devoted to work, the middle bit to domestic arrangements and the latter part to roistering in the style to which tabloid readers have become accustomed.
- Within the narrow range of south-western Holland, he roistered from one town to another, storing up themes and stories as he went.
- Piper lived with Arthur and me for four months in 2002, when we roistered around the local show circuit.
Synonyms
enjoy oneself, celebrate, revel, carouse, frolic, romp, have fun, have a good time, make merry, have a party, party, {eat, drink, and be merry}, go on a spree
informal live it up, whoop it up, have a fling, have a ball, make whoopee, paint the town red
dated spree
rare rollick
Derivatives
roisterer
- In a drunken rage, the three roisterers set off in a run until they came to the tree, and there they found a pile of gold.
- He may be a roisterer and act the fool, but he's got ‘bottom’, as they used to say in the 18th century, meaning he has substance.
- As the old roisterer was being carted off to hospital on a stretcher he looked up at a gawping gaggle of tourists in the hotel lobby and gasped: ‘It was the food!’
roisterous
- Initially it feels leaden, the roisterous energy of the band's 2002 debut dissipated and replaced not with maturity but hesitancy.
- It's been a roisterous time, filled with every strength and variety of wind from a ragamuffin breeze right through to a force eight gale, whipping in from the sea and over the moors.
- After decades of quiet ascent, Tokyo has become the roisterous epicenter of a sophisticated and constantly evolving global youth culture.
Origin
Late 16th century: from obsolete roister 'roisterer', from French rustre 'ruffian', variant of ruste, from Latin rusticus 'rustic'.