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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Riot \Ri"ot\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rioted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rioting}.] [OF. rioter; cf. OD. ravotten.]
1. To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law. --Daniel.
No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. --Pope.
2. (Law) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See {Riot}, noun, 3. --Johnson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Riot \Ri"ot\, verb (used with an object) To spend or pass in riot.
[He] had rioted his life out. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Riot \Ri"ot\, noun [OF. riote, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. revot, ravot.]
1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
His headstrong riot hath no curb. --Shak.
2. Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
Venus loveth riot and dispense. --Chaucer.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. --Pope.
3. (Law) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
{To run riot}, to act wantonly or without restraint.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
riot
noun
1: a public act of violence by an unruly mob [syn: {public violence}]
2: a state of disorder involving group violence [syn: {rioting}]
3: a joke that seems extremely funny [syn: {belly laugh}, {sidesplitter}, {howler}, {thigh-slapper}, {scream}, {wow}]
4: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: {orgy}, {debauch}, {debauchery}, {saturnalia}, {bacchanal}, {bacchanalia}, {drunken revelry}]
verb
1: take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot; "Students were rioting everywhere in 1968"
2: engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making; "They were out carousing last night" [syn: {carouse}, {roister}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
338 Moby Thesaurus words for "riot": abundance, ado, affluence, affray, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, anarchism, anarchy, arise, assault, attack, avalanche, barbarize, batter, battering, battle, belly laugh, best seller, big hit, blue story, bonanza, bother, bountifulness, bountiousness, box, brawl, brilliant success, broil, brouhaha, brutalize, bud, bumper crop, burgeon, burn, burst forth, butcher, butchery, carouse, carry on, civil disorder, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, comedian, comedienne, commotion, contend, contest, copiousness, create a disturbance, create a riot, cut and thrust, cut loose, destroy, dirty joke, dirty story, disorderliness, disruption, distemper, disturbance, do, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, double entendre, duel, dustup, embroilment, emeute, ethnic joke, exchange blows, extravagance, exuberance, fad, fence, fertility, feud, fight, fight a duel, flood, flourish, flow, foison, foofaraw, forcible seizure, fracas, fray, free-for-all, frolic, full measure, fullness, fun, funny story, fuss, gag, gas, gasser, gemmate, general uprising, generosity, generousness, germinate, give and take, give satisfaction, go berserk, go on, good one, good story, grapple, grapple with, great abundance, great plenty, great success, grow, grow rank, gush, hammer, hassle, hell, helter-skelter, hit, howl, howler, hubbub, imbroglio, insurge, insurgence, insurgency, insurrect, insurrection, jacquerie, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, jostle, joust, killing, knock-down-and-drag-out, landslide, laugh, lavishness, lawlessness, lay waste, laying waste, leaf, leaf out, leave, levee en masse, liberality, liberalness, loot, looting, lots, luxuriance, luxuriate, make a commotion, make an ado, make trouble, massacre, maul, maximum, melee, meteoric success, misrule, mix it up, momentary success, more than enough, mount the barricades, much, mug, mutineer, mutiny, myriad, myriads, numerousness, obstreperousness, onslaught, opulence, opulency, outbreak, outburst, outpouring, overflow, overgrow, overrun, overthrow, pandemonium, panic, peasant revolt, pell-mell, pillage, pillaging, play, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, point, pother, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, putsch, quantities, quarrel, racket, rage, raise a ruckus, raise a rumpus, raise a storm, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, rassle, rave, rebel, rebellion, reluct, reluctate, repleteness, repletion, resounding triumph, revolt, revolute, revolution, revolutionize, rib tickler, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rioting, riotousness, rise, rise up, rising, roar, roaring success, roil, roister, root, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruin, rumpus, run a tilt, run amok, run riot, run wild, sack, sacking, savage, scads, scramble, scream, scrimmage, scuffle, sensation, shindy, shoot, shoot up, shower, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, skirmish, slaughter, smash, smash hit, sow chaos, sowing with salt, spar, spate, sport, spree, sprout, sprout up, stir, storm, story, stream, strife, strike, strike root, strive, struggle, substantiality, substantialness, subvert, superabundance, take root, tear, tear around, teemingness, terrorize, thrust and parry, tilt, to-do, tourney, triumph, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, tussle, unrest, unruliness, uprising, uproar, upspear, upsprout, vandalize, vegetate, violate, violation, violence, visual joke, wage war, war, wassail, wealth, wheeze, wow, wreck, wrestle, yarn
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
RIOT, noun A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than _reductus in pulvis_.
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