To run riot. To act in a very disorderly way. Riot means debauchery or wild merriment.
“See, Riot her luxurious bowl prepares.”
Tableau of Cebes.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.