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n. - A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity; A drunken reveller; Someone who engages in drinking bouts adj. - Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.

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Usage examples (32)
  • It's the orgy, the bacchanal, that is to still the lamentations of the poor! "
  • He offers an orgy of spending and a bacchanal of debt.
  • A Hangover-style bacchanal, complete with zoo animals?
  • A bowl of punch! each merry bacchanal rises at the call!
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