rip-roaring

English

Etymology

From rip +‎ roaring.

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.

   • 2012 December 21, Monique Keiran, “Humans get more nutrition from tastier food”, in Times Colonist, 155th year, number 10, Victoria, B.C.: TC Publication Limited Partnership, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A13, column 4:

     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.

Derived terms

• rip-roaringly