rootin' tootin'

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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