rowdier; rowdiest
: coarse or boisterous in behavior : rough
also
: characterized by such behavior
rowdy local bars
Examples of rowdy in a Sentence
Adjective
a rowdy game of basketball
a rowdy but good-natured group of teenagers
Noun
rowdies had overtaken the neighborhood and were threatening people on the street
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Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 2 June 2025
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The city has banned beer bikes, limited noise in historic areas and cracked down on public drinking, pub crawls and rowdy bachelor and bachelorette parties.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
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Adjective
For 23 years, the rowdy blue agent of chaos lived as a second-class citizen at Disney.
—Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Tear gas was reportedly used near the stadium and water cannon were used near the Arc de Triomphe to disperse rowdy crowds.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 June 2025
The city has banned beer bikes, limited noise in historic areas and cracked down on public drinking, pub crawls and rowdy bachelor and bachelorette parties.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
Meet the real Albert Lin, learn to build a ride-or-die outdoor community, and visit Kazakhstan for one of the rowdiest games ever played on horseback.
—Peter Frick-Wright, Outside Online, 20 May 2025
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“Rowdy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rowdy. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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rowdy
1 of 2 adjective
row·dy
ˈrau̇d-ē 
rowdier; rowdiest
: rough or loud in behavior
rowdiness
noun
rowdy
2 of 2 noun
plural rowdies
: a rowdy person
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