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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 or·gy /ˈɔrʤi/
 鬧酒狂歌;狂歡;放蕩;熱衷

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Or·gy n.; pl. Orgies  A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Or·gy n.; sing. Orgies .
 1. A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry.  Usually in the plural form.
 Note: [The singular is rarely used in this sense.]
 As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god,
 Those priests high orgies held.   --Drayton.
 2. Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited carouse.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 orgy
      n 1: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an
           emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: binge,
            splurge]
      2: secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities
         involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual
         activity
      3: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and
         promiscuity [syn: debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot,
          bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]