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roister verb [ ˈrɔɪstə ]

• enjoy oneself or celebrate in a noisy or boisterous way.
• "workers from the refinery roistered in the bars"
Similar: enjoy oneself, celebrate, revel, carouse, frolic, romp, have fun, have a good time, make merry, have a party, party, eat, drink, and be merry, go on a spree, live it up, whoop it up, have a fling, have a ball, make whoopee, paint the town red, spree, rollick,
Origin: late 16th century: from obsolete roister ‘roisterer’, from French rustre ‘ruffian’, variant of ruste, from Latin rusticus ‘rustic’.


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