rager

American  

[rey-jer] / ˈreɪ dʒər /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of rager

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

Example Sentences

The older I get, the more I think the ideal birthday isn’t a rager or a bucket-list trip but a day that feels like how you’d like the rest of your year to feel.

From Salon

Anthropic’s problem might be that it’s the sober one at the AI rager.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s a pick-me-up,” said Alondra, 28, from Compton, before filing into the theater with other parents and caregivers for an afternoon rager with their kids.

From Los Angeles Times

Their previous film, for instance, the 2020 sorta-documentary “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” sets up a scenario — the final night at a Vegas dive bar, on the eve of the 2016 presidential election — and populates it with real drinkers, who have a real rager on camera.

From New York Times

Just don’t look for Sage Against the Machine at traditional rager venues.

From Los Angeles Times