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rollicks

rollicks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rollick.

rollicks is the plural of rollick.

Meaning of rollick

Verb (1)

rollick (third-person singular simple present rollicks, present participle rollicking, simple past and past participle rollicked)

  1. To behave in a playful or carefree manner; to frolic or romp.
    • But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 34, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 163

Verb (2)

rollick (third-person singular simple present rollicks, present participle rollicking, simple past and past participle rollicked)

  1. (euphemistic, transitive) To reprimand.

Questions about rollicks

What is rollicks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rollicks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rollick.

Words near rollicks in the dictionary

  1. rollickers
  2. rollicking
  3. rollickingly
  4. rollickingness
  5. rollickings
  6. rollicks
  7. rollicksome
  8. rollicksomeness
  9. rollicky
  10. rollie
  11. rollies

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