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rip-roaring

[ rip-rawr-ing, -rohr- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Informal.

rip-roaring

1825–35, Americanism; rip ¹ + roaring, alteration of rip-roarious, modeled on uproarious

Those rip-roaring Romney delegates sure know how to pump up a room.

According to Eade, in his youth Philip was a member of a lunch club that enjoyed “rip-roaring stag parties” every Thursday.

Rip-roaring, terrifying, chilling, the first time you see it.

O'Malley always had been a rip-roaring fighter who accepted battle against any odds.

And if rip-roaring, swashbuckling, drunken glory is what he is after, he gets it.

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