Roister

Quick meaning: Roister is a verb meaning (intransitive) To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour.

Meaning

(intransitive) To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To walk with a swaying motion.
2. (archaic) A roisterer.
3. (archaic) A session of noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour.

Example Sentences

The servants went out on the roister after getting paid.

The youth who had joined the roisters, was apparently about eighteen[…]

He loved Rick and gave the best years of his life, now to roistering with him, now to hanging on to his coat-tails.

He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick on him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun.

Word Forms

• roisters
• roistering
• roistered

Synonyms for roister

Depending on context, synonyms include roister-doister, carouse, revel, riot, swagger.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include carouse, riot, roughhouse, ruffian, orge, rabble.

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