Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lively; uproarious; boisterous; slam bang.
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Examples
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The run-up to Snyder's next film, "Sucker Punch," just got far more interesting -- as the tent will now grow to include curious lookyloos who otherwise might have passed on watching a young girl's riproaring alt-reality.
6 Things We Can Safely Say About Director Zack Snyder's 'SUPERMAN'... Michael Cavna 2010
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I can't bloody wait for these Edinburgh trams to get going, they're going to be a riproaring success.
Archive 2009-01-01 Jeff 2009
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I also know that it would allow the Kennedy types to get riproaring wasted and it isn†™ t a good idea, but I can dream, can†™ t I?
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Still, for all its lack of a riproaring plot, "The Master" is riveting and full of the stuff you'd expect from a life of James: longing, miscommunication, great insight into the human animal and regular flashes of poetry.
Page Turners 2007
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My SWC meme hasn't exactly been a riproaring success, for three reasons.
One thing the SWC has done for me Janet Ursel 2006
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My SWC meme hasn't exactly been a riproaring success, for three reasons.
Archive 2006-10-08 Janet Ursel 2006
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Children have less insurance and they are going to the doctor less often since the budget cuts got riproaring a few years ago.
Archive 2005-02-20 2005
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But it really is a riproaring time, here in the leprosy colony.
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But it really is a riproaring time, here in the leprosy colony.
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But it really is a riproaring time, here in the leprosy colony.
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