Definitions

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

  • adjective Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous.

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  • verb Present participle of rollick.
  • noun UK A scolding, a bollocking.
  • adjective carefree, merry and boisterous

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  • adjective given to merry frolicking

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Examples

  • Supporters feelings and reaction became increasingly critical, the general feeling being that Di Matteo must surely express his displeasure with a very strong team talk (in other words a rollicking) stressing the first 45 minutes had been a massive let down.

    The Stirrer 2009

  • But first, off to the movies, and this next one has been described as a rollicking mix of farce and fancy.

    CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2007 2007

  • If so, you have listened to the call of the Skookum Chuck, as the Chinook speakers call the rollicking, tumbling streams that sing their way through the canyons with a music so dulcet, so insistent, that for many moons the echo of it lingers in your listening ears, and you will, through all the years to come, hear the voices of

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • Chuck, as the Chinook speakers call the rollicking, tumbling streams that sing their way through the canyons with a music so dulcet, so insistent, that for many moons the echo of it lingers in your listening ears, and you will, through all the years to come, hear the voices of those mountain-rivers calling you to return.

    Legends of Vancouver E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • Perhaps by "Maverick" he means a kind of rollicking riverboat gambling with children's education and, thus, America's future, in much the same way that McCain and Bush would bet America's retirement on a marked deck dealt by the unregulated sharks of Wall Street.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Jim Horn 2008

  • Early on in Bill Bryson's supposedly "rollicking" new travelogue, "In a Sunburned Country," he notes "the low but relentless piped music" on Australian trains.

    Did Someone Say No Worries? 2008

  • I can't think of a word to describe it better than "rollicking".

    Top 158 Comic Book Runs #148-139 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Perhaps by "Maverick" he means a kind of rollicking riverboat gambling with children's education and, thus, America's future, in much the same way that McCain and Bush would bet America's retirement on a marked deck dealt by the unregulated sharks of Wall Street.

    "Luck is his companion, Gamblin' is his game" Jim Horn 2008

  • If I never again hear the word "rollicking" employed to describe a novel, it will be too soon.

    This product is cool. There is a hand outside my window. shunn 2007

  • If I never again hear the word "rollicking" employed to describe a novel, it will be too soon.

    This product is cool. There is a hand outside my window. shunn 2007

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