bacchanalia
ba kuh nayl yuh
- n an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)
- n a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- The Joint Chiefs fret over a breakdown of discipline, as if Tailhook had been a gay bacchanalia.
- Wynne and his fellow Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers began their bacchanalia with an off-campus keg party featuring "funneling," in which beer is shot through a rubber hose into the .
- To rein in the bacchanalia, local police have begun raiding unlicensed wedding parties and impounding gifts as evidence.