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rip-roaring

adj

Etymology

From rip + roaring.

Definitions

  1. Exciting, energetic, enthusiastic, with gusto.

    • It was a rip-roaring bar fight, until the cops broke it up.
    • The brain matches the mind-image of doughnuts to images and emotions stored in his brain’s memory regions: “Mmmm … doughnuts.” Then—bingo!—his brain’s dopamine-producing reward centres light up and have a rip-roaring hootenanny.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA