Meaning of rootin' tootin' | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Loudly exciting or impressive; boisterous, riotous.
   US, informal
2. Overly inquisitive about other's affairs; interfering, nosy.
   archaic, rare

Examples

“I am happy to second the nomination of that rootin’, tootin’, son-of-a-gun from Pennsylvania, Jimmy Van Zandt.”

“The theme song “Up and Down the Monon,” written by John A. McGee, follows: […] UP and down the Monon / Everything is fine, / ’cause that rootin’, tootin’ Monon / She’s a Hoosier line!”

“This is to remind you that you get two individual packages of the rootinest-tootinest, sweetinest flakes in Kellogg's Variety Pack.”

“Hewson maintains its high standards with this rootin’, tootin’, killin’, maimin’, shoot ’em up. Not to be missed by arcadey types.”

“Creative destruction was popularized in a way [Joseph] Schumpeter hadn’t meant it, as a celebratory sorry-suckers catchphrase for rootin’-tootin’ Wild West American capitalism as a permanent condition, where the rich and tough and lucky win and the losers lose hard.”

“"Howdy, pardners! I'm Chip! The rootinest, tootinest root vegetable this side of the Boise River," he said in a fake Western drawl. The pre-recorded words came from speakers mounted on the walls. Chip clutched a basket brimming with real potatoes against his red flannel shirt.”

“ROOTIN’, […] meddlesome, inquisitive. / He’s a rootin’''' tootin’ sort of a chap.”

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