jamboree
Other forms: jamborees
A jamboree is a festive party or gathering. Your backyard jamboree might bother your neighbors, unless you invite them to join you.
When you throw a jamboree, there's usually music, cheering, or other kinds of noise involved. You can call any large celebration a jamboree, as long as it's full of celebration and raucous enthusiasm. Jamboree is an American English invention from the 1860's. The word's origin isn't certain, although experts suspect a connection to shivaree, or charivari, a French folk tradition of greeting a newly married couple by making a whole lot of noise, in a mock serenade.
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a festive party or celebrationsynonyms: blowout, gala, gala affair
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