rip-roaring

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Etymology

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Adjective

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rip-roaring (comparative more rip-roaring, superlative most rip-roaring)

  1. (informal) Exciting, energetic, enthusiastic, with gusto.
    It was a rip-roaring bar fight, until the cops broke it up.

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