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n. - A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.

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  •   They'd laugh at the old-fashioned words he used like “chivaree” and “sparkin ',” but I notice once he'd introduced them to an expression, they kept it.
  •   It's the opening night at the Fulton County Fair in this tiny town in northwest Ohio, and the grandstands are packed for the first round of the event that is the annual...
  • "Well, it's the only chance we'll have to chivaree them," grumbled Dan.
  • By now few foreigners in Iraq have failed to register that blasting the sky with machine-gun fire is the Iraqi chivaree, and that weddings are wonderful events - symbols...
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