Reverse Dictionary: CELEBRATE

ADJECTIVES
L19.. ► ON THE RAZZ → ON THE RAZZLE  out celebrating or enjoying oneself, esp. while drinking freely → sl.

NOUNS
1843 ► CHARIVARI → CHEVRARAI → CHIVERIE → SHIVAREE a noisy celebration or mock serenade for newlyweds → Amer. dial.
1843 ► GLORIFICATION a celebration → colloq.
1856 ► QUADRENNIAL a fourth anniversary, or its celebration 
1862 ► BELLING a noisy celebration or mock serenade for newlyweds; bells, shotguns, or any noise-making device was used → Amer. dial.
1863 ► BIG TIME a convivial celebration or party; a social gathering; an enjoyable time → Amer. dial.
1868 ► SKIMMERTON a noisy celebration or mock serenade for newlyweds → Amer. dial
1886 ► SKIMELTON → SKIMMELTON a noisy celebration or mock serenade for newlyweds → Amer. dial
1889 ► CHIVOO → SHIVOO a celebration; a wild party; a spree → Aust. colloq.
1892 ► DOINGS a celebration or party; a social gathering or activity → Amer. dial.
1893 ► INFARE any kind of celebration or party → Amer. dial.
1900 ► MAFFICKING a celebrating in the streets in an uproarious manner, esp. during a national celebration; general street rowdyism → sl.
1907 ► JOLLO a celebration; a good time; a party; a party at which liquor is drunk → Aust. sl.
1910 ► FEST an informal celebration or meeting; a festival; usually used in combinations, as talkfest → Amer. dial.
1913 ► WHOOP-UP a noisy celebration or party → sl., chiefly Amer.
1929 ► BALL a celebration or party, a riotously good time → US sl., esp. African-American usage
1932 ► BIG DOINGS a celebration, a party; a formal social ceremony or gathering → Amer. dial.
1938 ► TIN-PANNING a noisy celebration following a wedding → Amer. dial.
1941 ► SKIMMITON a noisy celebration or mock serenade for newlyweds → Amer. dial.
1949 ► WINGDING a celebration or party, esp. a wild one → sl., orig. & chiefly US
1956 ► DING a celebration or party, esp. a wild one → Aust. sl.
1959 ► BUST-OUT a celebration; blowout → US sl.
1967 ► FREAK-OUT a celebratory event; a gathering together of counterculturists to enjoy music and drugs → US sl.
1970 ► FAIR-WEATHER DRINK a small celebration before initiating some project or journey → sl.
1970 ► JOLLYO a celebration → sl.

VERBS
1000 ► DEEM to celebrate, to announce, to declare; to pronounce, to proclaim; to tell, to say, to utter → obs.
1607 ► JUNKET to celebrate, esp. with eating and drinking, to make merry, to hold or attend a banquet or feast → obs.
1647 ► KILL THE FATTED CALF to celebrate or welcome lavishly or extravagantly 
1789 ► HANDSEL to celebrate for the first time, esp. by drinking; to give money or a present to celebrate a new undertaking, etc. → Sc. & Eng. dial.
M19. ► KNOCK DOWN  to spend all of one’s money on a celebration → Aust. & NZ sl.
20C.. ► RAISE SAND to celebrate wildly; to enjoy oneself in a wild, boisterous manner, usually with much noise and whisky; to be drunk and boisterous → Amer. colloq.
1900 ► MAFFICK to celebrate a victory with a delirious uproar 
1920 ► RAISE HELL to celebrate wildly; to enjoy oneself in a wild, boisterous manner, usually with much noise and whisky; to be drunk and boisterous → Amer. colloq
1938 ► HAVE A BALL to stage a celebration; to enjoy oneself; to have fun → sl., orig. US
1942 ► BALL to celebrate; to have fun; to have a riotously good time → US sl., orig. African-American usage
1953 ► BALL IT UP to celebrate riotously; to enjoy oneself; to have fun → US sl., orig. African-American usage
1970 ► LET THE BADGER LOOSE to celebrate wildly; to ‘let off steam’ → US Western sl.
1979 ► RAGE to celebrate; to party → colloq.
1990 ► HIGH FIVE to slap hands as a form of celebration, affirmation, congratulation, etc. → sl.
2006 ► BASH to celebrate; to party → US sl. (Bk.)