Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Riproaring; uproarious.

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Examples

  • I think, here, too, of the hilarious punning episode in Beckett's Malone Dies, where the farmer, Lambert, takes his dead mule out and throws it in a too-shallow grave and then has to beat its stiffened legs down with a shovel to get it to fit, an episode echoed to riproarious effect in National Lampoon's "Animal House", only this time with a chain saw.

    Literature and status 2009

  • Why, the Big-Whigs of Boston was fixin’ to throw me a riproarious dinner at the Tremont House the day after next.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

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