riot

Noun

• a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

• a joke that seems extremely funny

• a state of disorder involving group violence

• a public act of violence by an unruly mob

Verb

• engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
  • They were out carousing last night
    

• take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot
  • Students were rioting everywhere in 1968
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  orgy , debauch , debauchery , saturnalia , bacchanal , bacchanalia , drunken revelry , belly laugh , sidesplitter , howler , thigh-slapper , scream , wow , rioting , public violence , carouse , roister