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rip roaring

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rip-roar⋅ing

[rip-rawr-ing, -rohr-]
–adjective Informal.
boisterously wild and exciting; riotous: Have a rip-roaring good time.

Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; rip 1 + roaring, alter. of rip-roarious, modeled on uproarious
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