rager

[ rey-jer ]
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noun
  1. Slang. a party attended by a large number of people, especially students, and featuring copious amounts of alcohol: Your mom is letting you throw a legit rager in your backyard the day after graduation?If you're in a dorm, there's no better way to use up the flat beer from last night's rager than this easy biscuit recipe.

  2. Slang: Vulgar. a powerful erection or state of extreme sexual arousal.

  1. a person who frequently expresses violent or uncontrolled anger, often with little provocation and in the form of verbal abuse: All my kids had tantrums at the normal ages, but my third was a born rager.The immediacy of anger violently expressed means the rager is no longer thinking.

Origin of rager

1
First recorded in 1400–50; 1985–90 for def. 1; 2000–05 for def. 2; rag(e) + -er7

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