orgy

orgy
    n 1: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping";
         "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: {orgy},
         {binge}, {splurge}]
    2: secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities
       involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual
       activity
    3: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
       [syn: {orgy}, {debauch}, {debauchery}, {saturnalia}, {riot},
       {bacchanal}, {bacchanalia}, {drunken revelry}]
    

Orgy \Or"gy\, n.; pl. {Orgies}.
   A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See {Orgies}
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Orgy \Or"gy\, n.; sing. {Orgies}. [F. orgie, orgies, L. orgia,
   pl., Gr. ?; akin to ? work. See {Organ}, and {Work}.]
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   1. A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of
      some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by
      the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or
      Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute
      revelry. Usually in the plural form.

   Note: [The singular is rarely used in this sense.]
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               As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god,
               Those priests high orgies held.    --Drayton.
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   2. Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited
      carouse. --B. Jonson. --Tennyson.
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   3. A series of sexual activities involving more than two
      couples in a group.
      [PJC]

   4. Hence: An event characterized by unrestrained indulgence
      in passion; as, an orgy of buying of internet stocks.
      [PJC]
    

68 Moby Thesaurus words for "orgy":
      Saturnalia, abandon, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat,
      bender, binge, bout, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration,
      compotation, craze, debauch, debauchery, debauchment, delirium,
      dissipation, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, ecstasy,
      escapade, fire and fury, fling, free living, frenzy, furor, furore,
      fury, guzzle, high living, hysteria, intoxication, jag,
      killing pace, lark, licentiousness, madness, orgasm,
      overindulgence, party, passion, ploy, potation, pub-crawl, rage,
      rampage, randan, randy, rapture, ravishment, revel, riotous living,
      saturnalia, soak, splurge, spree, symposium, tear, tearing passion,
      toot, towering rage, transport, wassail, wingding