rooting-tooting

rootin'-tootin'

1. old-fashioned Particularly vigorous, exciting, exhilarating, or successful. Sometimes written with a comma instead of a hyphen. Come try our ziplining course today if you're looking for a rootin'-tootin' good time! The bake sale was a rootin'-tootin' success. Wow, what a rootin', tootin' party!

2. Characteristic of the stereotypes associated with cowboys or the Western genre of fiction. The historical park is filled with old-timey saloons and rootin'-tootin' cowboys. I love watching those classic rootin'-tootin' westerns from the '50s and '60s.

rooting-tooting

mod. exciting; renown; famous; illustrious. (A vague adjective of praise.) We really had a rooting-tooting time last weekend.

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Asking her to swear there are no more mudslinging revelations to come about her life and times as a huntin', shootin', evangelical, rooting-tooting, average hockey mom with five kids?

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The car chases are carried out in some good rooting-tooting style and there's a sub-plot about Cousin Bo trying to keep histitle in an annual car race, entering his car General Lee.

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