jamboree
IPA: jɑmbˈɔrˈi
noun
- A boisterous or lavish celebration or party.
- (dated, slang) A frolic or spree.
- (scouting) A large rally of Scouts or Guides.
- (card games) In euchre: an undefeatable hand containing the five highest cards.
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Examples of "jamboree" in Sentences
- Colinette's "jamboree" has most in one yarn I think ?
- Included at the jamboree will be the I.C.E. Tour Family Fan Fest.
- Toronto's huge literary jamboree is both aggressively international and fiercely Canadian
- A jamboree is a glorified practice, a chance to play another team without counting the result as a victory or a defeat.
- Canada hopes to participate this coming summer in the second American jamboree, which is being held in historic Valley Forge.
- (The term jamboree, according to the official Boy Scout etymology, was coined by Boy Scouts founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell to mean a gathering of Scouts.)
- Talbott said the jamboree is a celebration of rugged individualism that manifests itself in the way a person steps up to a challenge, as well as athletic prowess.
- FREDERICKTOWN - For the past 32 years, the tomato show has been the venue to end the summer season with a blast, and highlighting the jamboree is the Little Miss Tomato Contest.
- But the last time I saw him he was on a "jamboree," or spree, and killed his unfortunate horse by tying it up without feeding it or giving it water while he was drinking or drunk, and so he did not make his usual trip.
- Beginning with the "jamboree," which came off quite in accordance with Calderwell's prophecies, Arkwright spent the most of such time as was not given to his professional duties in deliberately cultivating the society of Bertram and his friends.
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