Definition of "rip-roaring" [rip-roaring]

• Informal Noisy, lively, and exciting. (adjective)

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• "The club continue to cling to the dream of a fourth-placed Premier League finish, which would bring readmission to the Champions League and the promise of another rip-roaring adventure."
• "It's another rip-roaring monologue and who knows what Bassett might have done with it if allowed?"
• "It's a rip-roaring tale, expertly and enthusiastically told, as you'd expect from the man who literally wrote the book on it, even if in places the choice of moments to re-enact does appear to have been motivated more by what looked like a laugh than any notion of historical interest."