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    MAKE MERRY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivitiesplay

    Example:

    Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!

    Synonyms:

    jollify; make happy; make merry; make whoopie; racket; revel; wassail; whoop it up

    Classified under:

    Verbs of political and social activities and events

    Hypernyms (to "make merry" is one way to...):

    celebrate; fete (have a celebration)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make merry"):

    carouse; riot; roister (engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s

    Derivation:

    merrymaking (a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity)

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