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roarin'

roarin' is the pronunciation spelling of roaring.

Meaning of roaring

Adjective

roaring

  1. (informal) Intensive; extreme.
    • “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
      Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
  2. Very successful; lively.
    • The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.

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What is roarin' the pronunciation spelling of?
Roarin' is the pronunciation spelling of roaring.

Words near roarin' in the dictionary

  1. roared out
  2. roarer
  3. roarers
  4. roarest
  5. roareth
  6. roarin'
  7. roaring
  8. roaring ahead
  9. roaring away
  10. roaring back
  11. roaring boy

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