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Definition of rowdy in English: rowdyadjectiverowdiest, rowdier ˈraʊdiˈraʊdi Noisy and disorderly. it was a rowdy but good-natured crowd Example sentencesExamples - Police are also cracking down on rowdy teenagers who have been causing a disturbance at stations in the area.
- Taxi drivers could reduce the chance of being assaulted by installing a protective shield to separate them from rowdy passengers.
- Be especially aware of late night, rowdy discussions around the campfire, or yelling and shouting.
- Police now have more powers than ever to crack down on boozy rowdy behaviour.
- Problems started a year ago with youngsters being rowdy and lighting fires, he said.
- Crowds of rowdy youngsters streaming into Walton from outlying towns and villages are causing a problem.
- Most of the kids at the school were rowdy and rambunctious, but they knew not to mess with the principal.
- When a loud, rowdy group of kids came in, I just kept my head down and ignored them.
- Certainly from the reports so far, it seems as though guards based in the city centre had not been given the training to deal with a rowdy crowd.
- In 1992, he was arrested after rowdy scenes outside a Nottingham nightclub, but released without charge.
- I could tell she was making a valiant attempt to join in the rambunctious merrymaking with the rowdy crowd.
- Since they began their direct action the arson attacks, break-ins and rowdy behaviour of recent weeks has all but stopped.
- In Billericay, police were called to move on a crowd of more than 50 rowdy supporters after they spilled on to the High Street, but no arrests were made.
- Police are preparing to launch a crackdown on rowdy youths in Stratton, Swindon.
- Housing chiefs say such behaviour will not be tolerated, and have warned rowdy tenants that they face eviction.
- Every so often the Royal Marines let off smoke grenades to disperse the increasingly rowdy crowd.
- One by one, loud, rowdy girls begin to file in from the halls.
- The famous sailor dance mimicked the movement of drunk, rowdy crewmen.
- Over the years, December 31 has become synonymous with drunken and rowdy behaviour in public.
- Residents using the shops have complained about the group's rowdy behaviour and businesses say they are losing customers.
Synonyms unruly, disorderly, badly behaved, obstreperous, riotous, unrestrained, undisciplined, ill-disciplined, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, uncontrolled, disruptive, out of hand, out of control, rough, wild, turbulent, lawless boisterous, irrepressible, uproarious, rollicking, roisterous, rackety, noisy, loud, clamorous British informal rumbustious North American informal rambunctious archaic rampageous
nounPlural rowdies ˈraʊdiˈraʊdi A noisy and disorderly person. we are accused of being rowdies in the pub Example sentencesExamples - The two weeks we were there were entirely free of drunks or rowdies.
- Following several incidents in previous years when drunken rowdies went on the rampage in York, coaches were permanently banned from the city centre and pubs had to close before the last race.
- In their eagerness to surpass their rivals, friendly competition between fire companies deteriorated into daily skirmishes and riots between gangs of dandies and rowdies.
- The centre is not so awfully bad, if you ignore the drunks and rowdies that is.
- Sleep-starved residents today called for a new crackdown on rowdies in Clacton town centre who are making their lives a misery.
- Even after she asked him to stay close when approached by two rowdies, he told her that they were harmless and left her to it - hoping against hope he had made the right decision.
- Anarchist, of course, has become a media code word for punk-and-hippie anti-capitalist rowdies.
- In 1969 the canyon shut down, overrun by motorcyclists, students, and assorted rowdies.
- But they weren't drinking, they weren't rowdies, they were marvelous ladies and gentlemen that were a credit to their country and to their faith and to their parents.
- All rowdies go there, and the watchman had so many skirmishes with them.
- There are several playgrounds around Bradford, built under similar arrangements, which have been removed at the request of residents after becoming the gathering place for young rowdies.
- Now the police sergeant, who has moved back to the town after a 17-year stint elsewhere in the county, wants to clamp down on the late night rowdies.
- The hero joins the band of underworld dons and becomes a rowdy.
- The rowdies were given a free hand to subvert justice, equality, liberty and fraternity.
- On the other side they were considered as wild red necks, rowdies and drunks.
- Youngsters are not just a bunch of movie-type heroes or roadside rowdies who would bring disgrace to society with their actions.
- The courts will also have the power to order the pubs and clubs to install CCTV to keep an eye on rowdies.
- Again, in an exercise hall where supervision was inadequate, the senior pupils would wantonly throw down the juniors or pick quarrels, so that jujitsu was despised as something that made rowdies of young men.
- His enervated foster parents solved the problem by giving the little rowdy into the custody of a cloister.
- His leg had been broken during a brawl at the pub; he had been forced to evict a group of rowdies and they decided that he should be left with this memento of their visit.
Synonyms ruffian, troublemaker, lout, thug, hooligan, bully boy, hoodlum, brawler British tearaway Scottish & Northern English keelie, ned Australian larrikin informal tough, bruiser, yahoo British informal rough, yob, yobbo, bovver boy, lager lout, chav, hoodie Australian/New Zealand informal roughie, lout
Origin Early 19th century (originally US in the sense 'lawless backwoodsman'): of unknown origin. Rhymes cloudy, dowdy, Gaudí, howdy, Saudi Definition of rowdy in US English: rowdyadjectiveˈraʊdiˈroudē Noisy and disorderly. it was a rowdy but good-natured crowd Example sentencesExamples - Police are also cracking down on rowdy teenagers who have been causing a disturbance at stations in the area.
- Most of the kids at the school were rowdy and rambunctious, but they knew not to mess with the principal.
- I could tell she was making a valiant attempt to join in the rambunctious merrymaking with the rowdy crowd.
- Certainly from the reports so far, it seems as though guards based in the city centre had not been given the training to deal with a rowdy crowd.
- Since they began their direct action the arson attacks, break-ins and rowdy behaviour of recent weeks has all but stopped.
- Be especially aware of late night, rowdy discussions around the campfire, or yelling and shouting.
- Crowds of rowdy youngsters streaming into Walton from outlying towns and villages are causing a problem.
- In 1992, he was arrested after rowdy scenes outside a Nottingham nightclub, but released without charge.
- Over the years, December 31 has become synonymous with drunken and rowdy behaviour in public.
- When a loud, rowdy group of kids came in, I just kept my head down and ignored them.
- Police are preparing to launch a crackdown on rowdy youths in Stratton, Swindon.
- Every so often the Royal Marines let off smoke grenades to disperse the increasingly rowdy crowd.
- One by one, loud, rowdy girls begin to file in from the halls.
- Taxi drivers could reduce the chance of being assaulted by installing a protective shield to separate them from rowdy passengers.
- Police now have more powers than ever to crack down on boozy rowdy behaviour.
- The famous sailor dance mimicked the movement of drunk, rowdy crewmen.
- Problems started a year ago with youngsters being rowdy and lighting fires, he said.
- In Billericay, police were called to move on a crowd of more than 50 rowdy supporters after they spilled on to the High Street, but no arrests were made.
- Residents using the shops have complained about the group's rowdy behaviour and businesses say they are losing customers.
- Housing chiefs say such behaviour will not be tolerated, and have warned rowdy tenants that they face eviction.
Synonyms unruly, disorderly, badly behaved, obstreperous, riotous, unrestrained, undisciplined, ill-disciplined, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, uncontrolled, disruptive, out of hand, out of control, rough, wild, turbulent, lawless
nounˈraʊdiˈroudē A noisy and disorderly person. Example sentencesExamples - The two weeks we were there were entirely free of drunks or rowdies.
- The hero joins the band of underworld dons and becomes a rowdy.
- There are several playgrounds around Bradford, built under similar arrangements, which have been removed at the request of residents after becoming the gathering place for young rowdies.
- Now the police sergeant, who has moved back to the town after a 17-year stint elsewhere in the county, wants to clamp down on the late night rowdies.
- Anarchist, of course, has become a media code word for punk-and-hippie anti-capitalist rowdies.
- Sleep-starved residents today called for a new crackdown on rowdies in Clacton town centre who are making their lives a misery.
- In 1969 the canyon shut down, overrun by motorcyclists, students, and assorted rowdies.
- His enervated foster parents solved the problem by giving the little rowdy into the custody of a cloister.
- Youngsters are not just a bunch of movie-type heroes or roadside rowdies who would bring disgrace to society with their actions.
- Following several incidents in previous years when drunken rowdies went on the rampage in York, coaches were permanently banned from the city centre and pubs had to close before the last race.
- Again, in an exercise hall where supervision was inadequate, the senior pupils would wantonly throw down the juniors or pick quarrels, so that jujitsu was despised as something that made rowdies of young men.
- The courts will also have the power to order the pubs and clubs to install CCTV to keep an eye on rowdies.
- In their eagerness to surpass their rivals, friendly competition between fire companies deteriorated into daily skirmishes and riots between gangs of dandies and rowdies.
- The rowdies were given a free hand to subvert justice, equality, liberty and fraternity.
- But they weren't drinking, they weren't rowdies, they were marvelous ladies and gentlemen that were a credit to their country and to their faith and to their parents.
- On the other side they were considered as wild red necks, rowdies and drunks.
- All rowdies go there, and the watchman had so many skirmishes with them.
- His leg had been broken during a brawl at the pub; he had been forced to evict a group of rowdies and they decided that he should be left with this memento of their visit.
- Even after she asked him to stay close when approached by two rowdies, he told her that they were harmless and left her to it - hoping against hope he had made the right decision.
- The centre is not so awfully bad, if you ignore the drunks and rowdies that is.
Synonyms ruffian, troublemaker, lout, thug, hooligan, bully boy, hoodlum, brawler
Origin Early 19th century (originally US in the sense ‘lawless backwoodsman’): of unknown origin. |