Definition of "rollicking" []

• Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous: a rollicking celebration. (adjective)

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