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as in blowout
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Recent Examples of kegger
The event was billed as a GOP candidate open mic kegger, according to the website for United Republicans Green Valley and Sahuarita.
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Mike Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2022
Hours after her ex’s new girlfriend jumps her at a kegger in the woods, Erin’s body turns up in a nearby creek.
—Judy Berman, Time, 16 Apr. 2021
This mysterious liquid-to-solid transition is more like teenagers caught at a kegger: frozen exactly in place, with no order whatsoever.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
Even more cringeworthy are the exhumations of other ’80s and ’90s subcultures: pentagrams drawn on Trapper Keepers, unwieldy tubs of muscle powder, whiteboy ciphers drowning out Fugees CDs at backyard keggers in the ramifying burbs.
—New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
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Mike Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2022
Hours after her ex’s new girlfriend jumps her at a kegger in the woods, Erin’s body turns up in a nearby creek.
—Judy Berman, Time, 16 Apr. 2021
This mysterious liquid-to-solid transition is more like teenagers caught at a kegger: frozen exactly in place, with no order whatsoever.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
Even more cringeworthy are the exhumations of other ’80s and ’90s subcultures: pentagrams drawn on Trapper Keepers, unwieldy tubs of muscle powder, whiteboy ciphers drowning out Fugees CDs at backyard keggers in the ramifying burbs.
—New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kegger
Noun
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Unless there’s a true blowout team performance, chefs who did great dishes inevitably provide cover for chefs who whiffed it — or vice versa, since losing chefs can tank a team and make chefs who nailed it ineligible for the win.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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Comments Even when a blowout hotel isn’t in the budget, a fabulous night’s stay is within reach at these 15 properties, all of which come in at less than $300 a night.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
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That’s different from dealing with homosexual drunks.—
Bryan Washington,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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The bus is full of heroes, students, shoppers, phone scrollers, mothers with kids, silent commuters and the occasional drunks.—
Keith Sharon,
The Tennessean,
18 Feb. 2025
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Later on, Frank is seen peacefully praying after his bender.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2025
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The table above suggests that the conditions are ripe for another price crash, albeit perhaps a fender-bender.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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After launching as an annual event in 2018, the three-day jamboree has welcomed such headliners as Peso Pluma (2024), Rauw Alejandro (2024), Daddy Yankee (2022), Ozuna (2021), Bad Bunny and Cardi B (2019), and more.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2025
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The show is an immersive retrospective and jamboree of feeling, giggles and joy.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
25 Jan. 2025
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Nobody is drugged and no crazy orgy takes place.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Recent claims, in the conservative press, of a twelve-person orgy among officials at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Tennessee, offer salacious elaboration on this theme of erotic pathology, casting the bureaucrat in the bedroom as at once perverse and virtuosic.—
Charlie Tyson,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Kegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kegger. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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