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rave

/ɹeɪv/

noun

Meaning

  • An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).

  • An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.

  • The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties.

verb

Meaning

  • To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.

  • To speak or write wildly or incoherently.

  • To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.

    "He raved about her beauty."

  • To rush wildly or furiously.

  • To attend a rave (dance party).