rip-roaring

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Frequency: 3.44 in modern English

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adj

Informal

"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."

From rip + roaring.

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

rip-roaringly

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