jamboree

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Included at the jamboree will be the I.C.E. Tour Family Fan Fest.

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  1. noun A noisy celebration.
  2. noun A large assembly, often international, especially of Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.
  3. noun A mass gathering or assembly, as of a political party or association.

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  • And while this jamboree was going on, while the hate mail was pouring in and the Hall of Justice switchboard was completely jammed, Kate lived at the hospital, where her lover teetered on the edge of death. —  To Play the Fool
  • "So Secretary of State, you'd have to accept this taxpayer-funded jamboree is a total waste of time and money, with a hideous carbon footprint thrown in, and how are we to know the spouses are not watching p-rn films in their hotel rooms at our expense?" —  Crikey » Canberra Calling
  • Included at the jamboree will be the I.C.E. Tour Family Fan Fest. —  Islanders Top Stories
  • Their unveiling was always the cultural apex of the jamboree, akin to the start of the 100-metre race at an Olympics. —  New Liturgical Movement
  • Because of the volume of Clinton's last-minute pardon jamboree, there was no way to deliver all of the individual warrants before George W. Bush took office. —  Fables of the reconstruction
 

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