rowdy
noun
a rough, disorderly person.
rowdies
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pluralof rowdy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The happy band of Muppets on "Sesame Street" has faced the sort of hot spotlight you might expect for the rowdies of "Jersey Shore."
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2012
I gathered up my skirts, pushed through Traft’s rowdies and hurried outside.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
