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rip-roaring

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rip-roaring

Particularly vigorous, exciting, exhilarating, or successful. Ziplining is a rip-roaring good time! The bake sale was a rip-roaring success.
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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.
A rip-roaring, end-to-end World Cup thriller which Giggs stamped his mark on with another sensational goal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lively, rip-roaring tale, illustrated in the warm colors of the desert, especially recommended for young readers with a budding interest in westerns.
It's a rip-roaring adventure, richly comic and just seriously good 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.
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.
* COSMIC CRUSH * With your rip-roaring confidence and admirable leadership skills, a fellow Leo could be your perfect crush prospect.
"Things that cause rip-roaring infections are usually not what cause [cerebral palsy], or we'd have known it by now," she says.
At the convention, Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy gave what the Times called a "rip-roaring" nominating speech for Stevenson:
In More rip-roaring reads for reluctant teen readers the spotlight shines on 40 books, both fiction and nonfiction.
Strangelove (a Slim Pickens look-alike drafted to replay his rip-roaring nuclear suicide).
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