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The definition of rowdy is noisy and disorderly.

(adjective)

A crowd at a football game that is shouting, jumping up and down and making a lot of noise and chaos is an example of a rowdy crowd.

See rowdy in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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noun pl. rowdies

a person whose behavior is rough, quarrelsome, and disorderly; hoodlum

Origin: < ? row

adjective rowdier, rowdiest

having the nature of or characteristic of a rowdy; rough, quarrelsome, etc.

Related Forms:

rowdily adverb
rowdiness noun
rowdyish adjective
rowdyism noun

See rowdy in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. row·dies

A rough, disorderly person.

adjective row·di·er, row·di·est

Disorderly; rough: rowdy teenagers; a rowdy beer party.

Origin:

Origin: Probably from row³

Related Forms:

rowˈdi·ly adverb

rowˈdi·ness noun

rowˈdy·ism noun

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