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Meaning of rip-roaring | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Exciting, energetic, enthusiastic, with gusto.

informal

Examples

“It was a rip-roaring bar fight, until the cops broke it up.”
“The brain matches the mind-image of doughnuts to images and emotions stored in his brain’s memory regions: “Mmmm … doughnuts.” Then—bingo!—his brain’s dopamine-producing reward centres light up and have a rip-roaring hootenanny.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

rip-snorting mad riparial riparian riparious ripe ripe for the picking

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