roistered

Definition of roisterednext
past tense of roister
as in birled
to take part in drunken revelry the earl's wastrel son had spent the best part of his youth roistering and gambling

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  • Earlier this month, a newborn baby died from a listeria infection in New Mexico after the infant’s mother drank raw milk, and officials there are warning people off those products while the death is being investigated.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • In the early 2000s, there was a viral gossip report that Thornton and the Tomb Raider star drank each other’s blood.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
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  • While hundreds reveled at Thursday night’s all-out bash for The Pierre hotel’s 95th anniversary, some of the building’s tenants in the floors above haven’t been feeling quite as celebratory.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In the party scene, though, there would be plenty of swooping camera movements as the guests revelled.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
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  • My colleague Jesse David Fox just binged all five episodes of the season.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The momentary outage came after the first four seasons of Stranger Things re-entered Netflix’s top ten television chart as fans binged the series in recent days in preparation for the final season.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
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“Roistered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roistered. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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