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rowdy

How to use rowdy in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for rowdy.

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It's not the poor addicts who travel, it's the rowdy 16-25 crowd.

Examples13
Definitions2
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a cruel and brutal fellow

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of rowdy gathered in one view.

noun

a cruel and brutal fellow

adjective

disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rowdy.

adjective

disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers"

Example sentences

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It's not the poor addicts who travel, it's the rowdy 16-25 crowd.

2

Our resort was calm, peaceful and full of couples, no rowdy partiers.

3

*In fact, police SOP for a protest that's beginning to get a bit rowdy is to cite them for just such a crime.

4

If you've been to the Tenderloin area recently, then yeah you would know "...[they] spit, urinate, taunt you, sell drugs, get rowdy..." is completely accurate.

5

On the other hand, it is easy for kids to get rowdy without realizing it and this method seems to fix that particular issue well.

6

European soccer is notoriously rowdy, fans shout any and everything they can from the stands.

7

It's hear, hear from rowdy parliamentary question times & debates.

8

"it's ok to be rowdy when you're drunk, it's expected and it's understood"And here you've nailed the point that the OP of the first alcohol related post on HN completely missed.

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The kid's rowdiness isn't so much a consequence of his drinking than it is a social conditioning that taught him it's ok to be rowdy when you're drunk, it's expected and it's understood.

10

I'm also skeptical that among 15 teenagers, including a "rowdy troublemaker", not one would be chatting or giggling during this "experiment"?

11

As a teenager I spent a couple of weeks in front of rowdy groups of hundreds of school students during school election debates for a fringe party that made me an ideal candidate for mockery.

12

There is something about the cultural dimension of social problems that eludes us. When confronted with the rowdy youth in the bar, we are happy to raise his drinking age, to tax his beer, to punish him if he drives under the influence, and to push him into treatment if his habit becomes an addiction.

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First you have upper-middle-class often gay black kids in detroit rejecting the polyrhythms and rowdy attitude of the hiphop and funk around them in pursuit of the perceived sophistication of androgynous european synth-pop.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use rowdy in a sentence?

It's not the poor addicts who travel, it's the rowdy 16-25 crowd.

What does rowdy mean?

a cruel and brutal fellow

What part of speech is rowdy?

rowdy is commonly used as noun, adjective.