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rip-roar⋅ing

  [rip-rawr-ing, -rohr-]
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–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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riproaring 
1834, altered from riproarious (1830), from rip (v.) "tear apart" + (up)roarious (1819); see uproar.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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