saturnalia
- n an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn
- n a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- It's now possible to try to reconstruct their motivations--a task made more urgent by the saturnalia of lawmaking under way.
- For the occasion, Conservatives predicted a socialist saturnalia.
- How did the nightly saturnalia at Stonewall produce protests that would kick start the modern gay-rights movement? The uprising was inspirited by a potent cocktail of pent-up rage .