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rowdy

[rou-dee] / ˈraʊ di /




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Baylors, who last went when she was 17, says it is "not as rowdy as people say it is, it's not like some battle zone or anything".

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

On YouTube, the very same platform hosting Duffy’s vapid post-vacation slideshow, content abounds showing soccer lovers’ appreciation for our fast-food joints, rowdy dance clubs and ranch dressing.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

That his rowdy co-workers think he sucks at it is worse.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Their gripes abound: Lanes aren’t properly oiled; machines break down regularly; leagues are assigned lanes right next to rowdy parties; food is exorbitantly priced.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

But a second later Callum, Leo, and Dante stepped inside, laughing in a rowdy way that for some reason made my stomach knot.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

On an August night in the same year, rowdies racing a big red car through downtown scattered pedestrians, and half a dozen policemen “tried in vain to stop it.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 8, 2022

Reid, once a season ticket holder, is not one of the rowdies, and he feels the perception is overblown.

From Washington Post Jan. 7, 2021

The other idols of those prelapsarian Mets, the rowdies who won it all in ’86, remain staples of New York media, their successes lionized and their sins reconstrued as locker-room foibles.

From Slate Jan. 12, 2020

Past "Fast and Furious" rowdies such as Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges and Sung Kang join Diesel and company for an "Ocean's Eleven"-style heist romp.

From Seattle Times Apr. 27, 2011

A group of rowdies stumbled in and crowded Bertram to the end of the bar.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

But there was far less focus on the even rowdier world of “dating” shows aimed at young men.

From Salon Nov. 21, 2025

“Touch of Grey” introduced a new generation of fans to the Grateful Dead, many much rowdier than the Deadheads who had followed the group through the years.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2024

The temperature in the 40s might have kept the bees from getting rowdier during the several hours it took to get the truck upright and removed by a tow truck, he said.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2024

Vance told the crowd, declaring himself “the last thing standing” between them and a rowdier party, “what can you even say after a night like tonight?”

From New York Times Nov. 9, 2022

The gathering was intended as a wholesome alternative to rowdier festivities for the night, and she hoped she could make sure that Henry attended.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Nebraska’s arena has become one of the rowdiest barns in the Big Ten.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

One of the rowdiest young showmen in rap, Houston’s new champion delivers rough-and-tumble Tejano tales with the sweaty panache of Bun B and Paul Wall.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2024

Should the Marlins need a tip or two on how to win a postseason game in Philadelphia in front of one of the loudest, rowdiest atmospheres in baseball, they can just ask their manager.

From Washington Times Oct. 2, 2023

Phillies fans that turned Citizens Bank Park into the rowdiest postseason party in all of baseball — and a 6-0 postseason record at home before Wednesday — hit the exits in the eighth inning.

From Seattle Times Nov. 2, 2022

Dr. Johnson’s simple question gets to the heart of a basic and uncomfortable fact: some of the rowdiest cries for America’s freedom came from the Founding Fathers, heroes in the American quest for liberty.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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