wild nights
Unrestrained after-dark revelry
Wild nights are evenings of uninhibited revelry—drinking, dancing, staying out late, possibly reckless behavior.
The phrase suggests abandon and excess: After a few wild nights in Vegas, we needed a vacation from our vacation.
Emily Dickinson's poem "Wild Nights" uses the phrase erotically, imagining passionate union.
- recklessCarelessly ignoring danger
- passionIntense emotional drive
- abandonLeave behind permanently
- letting looseRemoving restraints or inhibitions
- frenzyViolent mental agitation
ecstasy · revelry · dancing · last call · moonlight · under the stars · fever · untamed · desire · storms · party · intoxication · breathless · Emily Dickinson · chaos · lustful · sleepless · carousing
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- rowdinessrowdiness, boisterousness, raucousness, unruliness, roughhousing