Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb colloq. To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form
rollicking .
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Examples
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Then he made a rollic of it, jumping the ditch, racing the animal, stopping abruptly, leaping over it, apparently making Christmas forget everything except that it had a friendly companion.
Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Allen Chapman
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Yet, as on the repeating of a comic story, it is hard to get the sting and rollic on the tongue.
Journeys to Bagdad 1906
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And with what a joyous rollic, with what a lively clatter, with what
Journeys to Bagdad 1906
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A little gallery to one side is reserved for the moon-eyed babies with whimsically shaved heads; but they come down occasionally and rollic about as they wish, quite unreproved.
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