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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that is remarkable for strength, intensity, or excellence.

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  • noun a violently energetic or noisily outspoken person; someone using slambang methods
  • noun something extreme; humdinger

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Examples

  • Gore then explained how he planned to travel to Iowa in September 2001 to deliver "a real ripsnorter of a speech" that would have harshly critiqued President Bush's first nine months in office and broken Gore's political silence.

    I Stand by My Story, What Story? 2009

  • “The original ripsnorter,” said the frontiersman, crossing his arms over his brawny chest.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • Craig Revel Horwood, who tends to be the harshest of the judges, told his fellow Australian: It was a ripsnorter mate.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Stephen Adams 2011

  • Matt Prior fended off a ripsnorter of a short ball for Mike Hussey to take a diving catch in the gully, Graeme Swann was bowled off an edge by Mitchell Johnson and the Steve Finn edged

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • A wayward - nay - shocking forehand goes miles wild as Monfils squanders two break points before Murray levels at deuce with a 210-km ripsnorter of a serve.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • JOHANNESBURG -- Kumba Iron Ore, one of the smaller participants in the global seaborne iron ore mining franchise, had a ripsnorter 2009 year, which hardly went unnoticed by 64% shareholder Anglo American, which has generally had a torrid year.

    WN.com - Articles related to Steel prices to rise 20% in China 2010

  • JOHANNESBURG -- Kumba Iron Ore, one of the smaller participants in the global seaborne iron ore mining franchise, had a ripsnorter 2009 year, which hardly went unnoticed by 64% shareholder Anglo American, which has generally had a torrid year.

    WN.com - Articles related to Steel prices to rise 20% in China 2010

  • He was one of a multitude of Minnesotans digging, plowing and blowing their way out from under Saturday's ripsnorter of a storm.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • JOHANNESBURG -- Kumba Iron Ore, one of the smaller participants in the global seaborne iron ore mining franchise, had a ripsnorter ...

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • JOHANNESBURG -- Kumba Iron Ore, one of the smaller participants in the global seaborne iron ore mining franchise, had a ripsnorter ...

    Steel: Report 2010

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