noisefest

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noun

An event or situation characterized by a great deal of noise.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounnoisefest (plural noisefests)

plural noisefests

  1. An event or situation characterized by a great deal of noise.

    It’s a pretty good game, the Times admits, but it’s a noisefest rather than a real sport—a few players engaged in bewildering and rather aimless activity and a lot of spectators indulging in a purposeless riot of excitement.

    1917 August 24, “Baseball in London”, in The Norfolk Daily News, volume 30, number 99, Norfolk, Neb.: The Huse Publishing Company, page 4
  2. entertainmentA piece of music that extensively features elements of noise.
    1 more example

    After a typically amphetaminized crash course in all things Beat, locked and loaded by paint-stripping, nightly replays of the first two Velvets [the Velvet Underground] albums, [Lester] Bangs decided to send a review of the latter noisefest to that bastion of underground rock-writing, Rolling Stone, then based 750 miles away up Highway One to San Francisco.

    2007, Clinton Heylin, “Prologue”, in Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 2

Origin

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APA

noisefest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noisefest

MLA

“noisefest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noisefest. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noisefest,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noisefest.

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