orgy

plural orgies

1. originallyA secret rite or ceremony, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honor of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc).

   Human sacrifices of a definitely black magical order took place at the tomb of Osiris, while similar orgies with human victims were performed at Heliopolis.

   1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 39

2. A gathering of people to engage in group sex.

   Synonyms: fuckfest

3. An instance or period of excessive indulgence in a specified activity; spree.

   Gorea 07: 'OUR DEFENSES WERE USELESS AGAINST GOREA AS IT SWEPT THROUGH OUR EMPIRE IN AN ORGY OF ANNIHILATION.'

   2006 March 20, Nintendo Software Technology, Metroid Prime Hunters, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Logbook – Lore

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   The amount of drink required also surprised me. I arranged for what I thought we should need for ourselves, and then Mr Goyles spoke up for the crew. I must say that for him, he did think of his men. ’We don’t want anything in the nature of an orgy, Mr Goyles,’ I suggested. ’Orgy!’ replied Mr Goyles; ‘why they’ll take that little drop in their tea.’

   1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel

   As two Homeric warriors, before they engage, introduce themselves by proclaiming each his lineage, so with Pelasgus and the Danaïds. Together they indulge in a veritable genealogical orgy.

   1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 40

   It's an orgy of perfectly choreographed cartoon uber violence and is the game the Devil May Cry series always promised but never delivered.

   2010 January 16, Nick Gillett, “This week's games reviews”, in The Guardian

   The wails of the injured and the roars of the dead-on-the-march overwhelmed the tinny speakers in the cell, and they all watched as nearly one thousand people reduced themselves to a few frantic hundred in less than an hour, then settled into a sustained orgy of battery, rapine and rape with no end in sight but the total depopulation of the entire facility.

   2024 September 28, Harry Blank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 604