U.S. slang., A noisy revel; a carousal or spree.
1858. Brooklyn Daily Times, 15 June, 2/6. When Lally said, ‘Let’s have a fight,’ I said, ‘don’t;’ I thought they were going to have some kind of a ‘jamboree;’ (laughter).
1872. F. J. Stimson, in Scribner’s Mag., IV. 363/2 (Farmer). There have not been so many dollars spent on any jamboree.
1877. Rev. W. H. Daniels, That Boy, xxii. in National Repository, II. 264/1. He enjoyed a drinking bout or a jamboree as well as if he could n’t write the finest poetry in the language.
1892. W. O’Brien, in On the Eve, 25/2. The Orange bad boys who, Home Rule Bill or no Home Rule Bill, would be making the air of Belfast hideous about this time of the year with their annual jamboree over the July anniversaries.
