[
US
/ˈɹɔɪstɝ/
]
VERB
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engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
They were out carousing last night
How To Use roister In A Sentence
- Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
- In the midst of the dinners and lunches, the luaus (Hawaiian feasts) and poi-suppers, and swims and dances in aloha (love) to both of them, his time and inclination were claimed by the crowd of lively youngsters of old Kohala days who had come to know that they possessed digestions and various other internal functions, and who had settled down to somewhat of sedateness, who roistered less, and who played bridge much, and went to baseball often. THE KANAKA SURF
- And the word "Yule" must be significant here as well, since pagans of all sorts have been roistering at the winter solstice ever since records were kept, and Christians have been faced with the choice of either trying to beat them or join them. Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
- Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
- The old man was ticked off in seeing that two kids saw his new invention, mistaking us for some roisterers.
- 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.
- Having fun with words can involve creative rhymes (“I do not roister with an oyster”) and nonce coinages (“my family was a scribacious lot”). The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
- Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
- Together they capture those long-lit days of summer when we roistered round the village.
- Daylight's friendships, in lieu of anything closer, were drinking friendships and roistering friendships. Chapter XVIII