rip-roaring

rip-roaring

Particularly vigorous, exciting, exhilarating, or successful. Ziplining is a rip-roaring good time! The bake sale was a rip-roaring success.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a roaring success
  • be a roaring success
  • roaring
  • rip down
  • roaring drunk
  • do a roaring trade
  • let one rip
  • rooting-tooting
  • rootin'-tootin'
  • rend (something) to (something)
References in periodicals archive
Today Steve Burr's side will seek to increase an unbeaten home run to six matches, which also included a rip-roaring win against title-chasing AFC Wimbledon.
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A rip-roaring, end-to-end World Cup thriller which Giggs stamped his mark on with another sensational goal.
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Aimed at the sevens and over - always a tricky age to engage boys with books - this story is a rip-roaring, action-packed adventure with pirates, treasure, secret codes and plots.
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July's rip-roaring Sesiwn Fawr festival in Dolgellau received some deserved plaudits when it landed the award for best live event, but in among these dead certs there were a few surprises.
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The rip-roaring climax puts readers in the situation room as President James "Mac" MacPherson races against time to take out an Iraqi ICBM fitted with a nuclear warhead, finally deciding to pre-emptively nuke Baghdad and Tikrit to remove the threat.
It can't happen here: the fantasy worlds of War on Terror novels
Entranced by the all-but-unexplored wilderness so near at hand, overflowing with fascinating birds and quadrupeds, he set about his life's work amid the rip-roaring frontier politics and frenetic westward expansion of the times.
Rhodes, Richard. John James Audubon; the making of an American
A lively, rip-roaring tale, illustrated in the warm colors of the desert, especially recommended for young readers with a budding interest in westerns.
The Return of Pete Pack Rat
It's a rip-roaring adventure, richly comic and just seriously good fun.
Wicked fun
He gave a rip-roaring speech that dwelled upon economic injustice, and, while echoing many of Kerry's basic policy positions, he made them sound pugnacious and daring.
Triumph of the bland
He started with the rip-roaring 1991 hit Sexuality and unlike many artists who shun their older work Bragg is more than happy to give the crowd exactly what they want.
Bragg gives crowd what they want
* COSMIC CRUSH * With your rip-roaring confidence and admirable leadership skills, a fellow Leo could be your perfect crush prospect.
Star Signs
"Things that cause rip-roaring infections are usually not what cause [cerebral palsy], or we'd have known it by now," she says.
Inflammation in womb tied to cerebral palsy
At the convention, Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy gave what the Times called a "rip-roaring" nominating speech for Stevenson:
JFK Beats the System
In More rip-roaring reads for reluctant teen readers the spotlight shines on 40 books, both fiction and nonfiction.
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Strangelove (a Slim Pickens look-alike drafted to replay his rip-roaring nuclear suicide).
Poll stars