rager

[ rey-jer ]

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.
3. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rager¹

First recorded in 1400–50; 1985–90 rager fordef 1; 2000–05 rager fordef 2; rag(e) ( def ) + -er ⁷( def )

Example Sentences

To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, Opening Ceremony held a good old fashioned rager at New York's Webster Hall on Sunday night.

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