noun
- Any act of immoderate indulgence.
- usage: "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending"
- Secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity.
- A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
- synonyms: debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry
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