riot

• WordNet 3.6
  • v riot engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking "They were out carousing last night"
  • v riot take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot "Students were rioting everywhere in 1968"
  • n riot a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
  • n riot a public act of violence by an unruly mob
  • n riot a joke that seems extremely funny
  • n riot a state of disorder involving group violence
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• Interesting fact: Next time you start a riot in Wisconsin remember that it is illegal to use a laser pointer to do so.
• • Riot Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. "Venus loveth riot and dispense.""The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day."
  • Riot (Law) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
  • Riot (Law) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot n., 3.
  • Riot To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess. "Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.""No pulse that riots , and no blood that glows."
  • v. t Riot To spend or pass in riot. "He] had rioted his life out."
  • Riot Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. "His headstrong riot hath no curb."
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• • n riot A disturbance arising from wanton and disorderly conduct; a tumult; an uproar; a brawl.
  • n riot Specifically In law, an unlawful assembly which has actually begun to execute the purpose for which it assembled by a breach of the peace, and to the terror of the public, or a lawful assembly proceeding to execute an unlawful purpose. A riot cannot take place unless three persons at least are present. Stephen. Compare rout, 4, and unlawful assembly (under unlawful).
  • n riot A luxurious and loose manner of living; boisterous and excessive festivity; revelry.
  • n riot Confusion; a confused or chaotic mass; a jumble; a medley.
  • n riot To grow luxuriantly, wildly, or in rank abundance.
  • n riot Synonyms and Mutiny, Sedition, etc. See insurrection, quarrel.
  • riot To act in a wanton and disorderly manner; rouse a tumult or disturbance; specifically, to take part in a riot (see riot, n., 2), or outbreak against the public peace.
  • riot To be in a state of disorder or confusion; act irregularly.
  • riot To revel; run to excess in feasting, drinking, or other sensual indulgences; act in an unrestrained or wanton manner.
  • riot To throw into tumult or confusion; disturb; harass; annoy.
  • riot To indulge in pleasure or sensual enjoyment; satiate: used reflexively.
  • riot To pass in riot; destroy or put an end to by riotous living: with out.
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• • n Riot rī′ot uproar: tumult: a disturbance of the peace: excessive feasting: luxury
  • v.i Riot to brawl: to raise an uproar: to run to excess in feasting, behaviour, &c.: to be highly excited: to throw into a tumult: to annoy
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• William Penn

  

  “Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.”
• King Jr. Martin Luther

  

  “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
• King Jr. Martin Luther

  

  “The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.”
• King Jr. Martin Luther

  

  “Riots are the voices of the unheard.”
• Rush Limbaugh

  

  “The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.”
• Norman Tebbit

  

  “He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.”

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