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/rip"rawr'ing, -rohr'-/, adj. Informal.boisterously wild and exciting; riotous: Have a rip-roaring good time.[1825-35, Amer.; RIP1 + ROARING, alter. of rip-roarious, modeled on uproarious]
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rip-roaring — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ full of energy and vigour … English terms dictionary
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rip-roaring — ADJ: ADJ n If you describe something as rip roaring, you mean that it is very exciting and full of energy. [INFORMAL] ...a rip roaring movie with a great array of special effects … English dictionary
rip-roaring — very exciting and successful. The show was a rip roaring success. (always before noun) The car was launched with a rip roaring publicity campaign … New idioms dictionary
rip-roaring — /ˈrɪp rɔrɪŋ/ (say rip rawring) adjective Colloquial boisterous; riotous; wild and noisy: *Imagine this studious youth in the rip roaring days of the Ballarat goldfields –frank clune, 1937. {US English colloquialism (1830s); rip1 + roaring} …
rip-roaring — adjective Exciting, energetic, enthusiastic, with gusto. It was a rip roaring, bar wide, fight, until the cops broke it up … Wiktionary
rip-roaring — UK / US adjective [only before noun] informal very lively and exciting The show was a rip roaring success … English dictionary
