rip-roaring

English

Etymology

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Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• rip-roaringly