Crossword clues for rowdy
rowdy
- Noisy mob, heading off before end of rally
- Loud and rough
- Argument over extremely disorderly hooligan
- Hopping mad
- Behaving like a ruffian
- Rough and noisy
- Early role for Clint
- Up for being up to no good
- Noisy and disorderly
- Disturbing the peace
- Brawler, e.g
- Behaving like a hooligan
- "Rawhide" role for Clint
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rowdy \Row"dy\, n.; pl. Rowdies. [From Rout, or Row a
brawl.]
One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly
fellow.
--M. Arnold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a rough, quarrelsome person," 1808, American English, originally "lawless backwoodsman," probably from row (n.2). The adjective is first recorded 1819. Related: Rowdily; rowdiness.
Wiktionary
a. loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous n. A boisterous person; a brawler.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Rowdy (officially Rowdy the Roadrunner) is the mascot of the University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunners. He appears at athletic events, such as football and basketball games, and other university sponsored events. An anthropomorphic roadrunner, Rowdy is based upon the Greater Roadrunner.
Rowdy may refer to:
- Rowdy (Hank Williams, Jr. album), 1981
- Rowdy (Steve Forde album), 2006
- Rowdy (Dallas Cowboys), the mascot of the Dallas Cowboys NFL franchise
- Rowdy (mascot), the mascot of the University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunners
- Rowdy Records, a record label
- Rowdy (Medal of Honor recipient), Native American member of the United States Army during the Indian Wars
- Rowdy Branch, a stream in Kentucky
Fiction characters named Rowdy:
- Rowdy Burns, Michael Rooker's character from the 1990 film Days of Thunder
- Rowdy Yates, Clint Eastwood's character in Rawhide
Films with the name Rowdy:
- Rowdy Alludu, a 1991 Tollywood film starring Chiranjeevi and Divya Bharati
- Rowdy Rathore, a 2012 Bollywood film starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha
- Rowdy (1966 film)
- Rowdy (2014 film), a 2014 Tollywood film starring Mohan Babu and Manchu Vishnuvardhan Babu
Nicknames:
- Dale Shearer (born 1965), Australian rugby league footballer
- Kyle Busch (born 1985), NASCAR driver
- Rowdy Gaines (born 1959, birth name Ambrose Gaines IV), American swimmer
- Roddy Piper (1954–2015), Canadian professional wrestler
- Ronda Rousey (born 1987), American mixed martial artist
- Rowdy Tellez (born 1995), American baseball player
- Rowdy, stuffed Labrador dog from Scrubs
Rowdy was the third and final album by Steve Forde & The Flange. The band split, but Forde went on to record two more albums and is still active.
Rowdy is a studio album by American country music artist Hank Williams Jr. It was released by Elektra/ Curb Records in January 1981. "Texas Women" and "Dixie on My Mind" were released as singles. The album peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and has been certified Gold by the RIAA.
Rowdy is a 1966 Indian Malayalam film, directed by KS Sethumadhavan and produced by MP Anand and P Rangaraj. The film stars Sathyan, Adoor Bhasi, Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai and BK Pottekkad in lead roles. The film had musical score by G. Devarajan.
Rowdy is the official mascot of the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys. Named by David Higginbotham of Dallas, TX. He's been the team's mascot since 1996. His tenure overlapped with that of Pro Football Hall of Famer, Crazy Ray's, who was the unofficial mascot of the Cowboys from 1962 until his death in 2007 following the 2006 season. Rowdy takes part in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, The Salvation Army, The Rise School of Dallas, Special Olympics, retirement centers, hospitals, schools, birthday parties, grand openings, Minor League Baseball games around the country, conventions, parades, grocery store promotions, NBA games, weddings and sometimes will take a visit to the crowd during halftime. He has even been to the Pro Bowl in 1999 and 2001. He also took part in TV events, which includes ESPN's Alumni Beach Bowl, ABC's Battle of the Gridiron and the Special Olympics.
In 1996 Rowdy jumped on the scene as the Official Mascot of the Dallas Cowboys. As the Ambassador of the Dallas Cowboys, Rowdy's job includes, but is not limited to creating game day enthusiasm at Texas Stadium. He does this at home games by driving in on his four-wheeler, tossing t-shirts into the stands, using signs like "Let's Go Cowboys," and mocking the opponents. Rowdy participates at every home game and selected away games.
At Training Camp, Rowdy's Kid Zone, where he plays with the kids at camp. He takes the kids through obstacle courses and has them chant for their favorite Cowboys player during practice. Kids also visit the inflatable Cowboys Experience, which includes a bouncy house, slide, football toss, and field goal kick. Rowdy takes pride in squirting the kids with water guns, and anyone who steps in his way like players, coaches, TV crews, and especially fans that come out to watch the Cowboys practice at camp. Fans enjoy the ice-cold water because it cools them down when it's 100 plus degrees, so as you can imagine, Rowdy is a popular Cowboy at camp.
Rowdy is proud to represent the Cowboys each year in selected cities for the annual Mascot convention. At this event the NFL Mascots compare and share ideas to help continue mascot antics and ways to market mascot awareness. Last year it was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where ESPN did a documentary of the mascots that will be featured on ESPN's Under The Helmet.
In August 2009, Ted Ovletrea who played the character, was notified that the team was letting him go. Cowboys spokesman Brett Daniels said the character of Rowdy is still part of the team, but officials are evaluating his role on game days. Rowdy was not seen on game days during the 2009-10 season.
Rowdy is a 2014 Telugu crime film written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. It stars Mohan Babu and his elder son Vishnu Manchu with Jayasudha and Shanvi Srivastav in important roles. Sai Kartik composed the music for this film while Satish Mutyala handled the cinematography. The principal photography commenced on 26 December 2013 and ended on 21 February 2014 in 30 working days.
The film also used sync sound and a three camera setup to reduce the work of dubbing and camera angles while in post production. The film was released on 4 April 2014 (worldwide) and 3 April 2014 ( united states) in over 50 screens.
Upon release, the film received positive reviews, with critics praising Ram Gopal Varma's narrative and brilliant performances from Mohan Babu, Vishnu Manchu and Jaya Sudha. The film minted on the first weekend of its release. The film minted a worldwide share of at the end of the second week of its run, and was declared a box office hit.
Usage examples of "rowdy".
Across the street Aldo Campione and Dick Doolan, who in the latter years of his life was known as Rowdy Dick, kept silent pace.
Then, as Francis soaped his beard, Aldo Campione and Rowdy Dick Doolan entered the bathroom.
Why were there no words that would unlock what lay festering in the heart of Rowdy Dick Doolan, who needed so desperately to express what he could never even know needed expression?
Below, in the yard, Aldo Campione, Fiddler Quain, Harold Allen, and Rowdy Dick Doolan were erecting a wooden structure that Francis was already able to recognize as bleachers.
Two rowdies - former henchmen of Butch Drongo - were still at their appointed posts.
The inquest on the exhumed body of Cora McCanley, which had been held on the day following the exhumation, had resulted in a verdict of murder by person or persons unknown, although a small but rowdy school of thought, not in our own village of Saltmarsh, but in Much and Little Hartley and the purlieus of Lower Bossingbury, were of the strong opinion that poor Bob was the culprit here as well, and had all three murders to his account.
Barmaids scurried from table to table, balancing wooden steins on teetering trays, serving rowdy customers, fending passes, keeping up with the orders.
They were the rowdy young males who had loped off not days before on a foraging trip to another part of the forest clump.
The university glee club sang the ancient scholastic song Gaudeamus Igitur with mournful respect and creamy phrasing, for they and most of the graduates, faculty members, parents, relatives and friends present in the field house thought it was a hymn instead of the rowdy drinking song it was.
Itch Hollens, dead from wounds taken during the fall of Minnoras as those Rowdies who had gone into the city with Nans tried to flee.
His Ironheads were a highly effective team of rowdies, but they were rowdies all the same--and as such, they easily grew restive and bored.
The party beneath, now more apparent in the light of the dawn, consisted of our old acquaintances, Tom Loker and Marks, with two constables, and a posse consisting of such rowdies at the last tavern as could be engaged by a little brandy to go and help the fun of trapping a set of niggers.
All the more reason for me to sit one day in some gimcrack villa of my own, to gaze across a low river valley, while rowdy descendants of Nux barked at shrieking infants in some struggling provincial garden where my ancient wife was reading on a sunny bench, intermittently asking her companions to keep quiet because the old fellow was writing his memoirs.
The story of German life during this interval is a rowdy and unhappy story--a story of faction fights and street encounters, demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, of a complicating tyranny of blackmailing officials, and at last of an ill managed and unsuccessful war, that belied the innate orderliness of the Teutonic peoples.
The dwarf was telling some rowdy story, the two goblins laughing riotously at every grotesque detail.