riot

noun

ˈrī-ət How to pronounce riot (audio)
Definition of riotnext
as in hoot
someone or something that is very funny she's such a riot at parties

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Recent Examples of riot Nuñez defended police tactics despite a growing number of severe injuries blamed on officers’ riot-control weapons. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026 King County prosecutors charged 33 people with crimes for the May 2025 riot at UW. — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026 The government has now deployed specialized riot police and mobile gendarmes as authorities struggle to contain the unrest, Le Monde reported. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 At least one car was torched in ​Strasbourg in ⁠the east and riot police clashed with youths in Toulouse in the southwest. — Reuters, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for riot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for riot
  1. hoot
  2. scream
  3. laugh
Noun
  • Whyte is a hoot, and her thick-as-thieves chemistry with Horgan a delight.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Church bells, owl hoots and sprinklers keeping the grass hydrated during this dry spell fill the space between the occasional motor trudging along a main road devoid of commotion.
    — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of hoot
Noun
  • Back at the Shareholders’ meeting, Rebecca and Higgins fake scream at each other and reveal that the Milk sisters didn’t actually sell their shares to Zelda after all.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Passengers later described screams and confusion as people realized something was seriously wrong.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of scream
Noun
  • This autumn, there are plenty of comedians rounding the country, all primed to provide you with boundless laughs.
    — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 1 Oct. 2026
  • This laugh-out-loud picture book will delight young readers (and anyone else who’d like several hundred puppies).
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of laugh

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