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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous: a rollicking celebration.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of rollick.
- adj. carefree, merry and boisterous
WordNet 3.0
- adj. given to merry frolicking
Etymologies
- Origin unknown.
Examples
“Supporters feelings and reaction became increasingly critical, the general feeling being that Di Matteo must surely express his displeasure with a very strong team talk (in other words a rollicking) stressing the first 45 minutes had been a massive let down.”
“But first, off to the movies, and this next one has been described as a rollicking mix of farce and fancy.”
“If so, you have listened to the call of the Skookum Chuck, as the Chinook speakers call the rollicking, tumbling streams that sing their way through the canyons with a music so dulcet, so insistent, that for many moons the echo of it lingers in your listening ears, and you will, through all the years to come, hear the voices of”
“Chuck, as the Chinook speakers call the rollicking, tumbling streams that sing their way through the canyons with a music so dulcet, so insistent, that for many moons the echo of it lingers in your listening ears, and you will, through all the years to come, hear the voices of those mountain-rivers calling you to return.”
“Early on in Bill Bryson's supposedly "rollicking" new travelogue, "In a Sunburned Country," he notes "the low but relentless piped music" on Australian trains.”
“I can't think of a word to describe it better than "rollicking".”
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“Perhaps by "Maverick" he means a kind of rollicking riverboat gambling with children's education and, thus, America's future, in much the same way that McCain and Bush would bet America's retirement on a marked deck dealt by the unregulated sharks of Wall Street.”
“If I never again hear the word "rollicking" employed to describe a novel, it will be too soon.”
“If light comic relief is what you're aiming for, it sure sounds like a "rollicking" good ride.”
“It's been a while since I've been to a "rollicking" Sing-A-Long party.”
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Seven Deadly Sins
See a...poignant, compelling, taut, lyrical, spare, eschew, limn, craft, nuanced, contrived, majestic, subtle and 52 more...
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HollieGolightly's list
indigo, flippant, quaint, ebullience, subterfuge, conspicuous, surreptitiously, kodachrome, doppelganger, hullabaloo, nabob, motley and 21 more...
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Party
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Fun, natural fun!rollicking, cheese, jaunt, zipperump-a-zoo, sriracha, daydream, sprack, swashbuckler, hecka, spread, camaraderie, caprae and 11 more...
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codswallop, dollop, ticker, shawarmageddon, shibboleth, zeitgeist, scrod, tomfoolery, idiom, rollock, rollicking, roger and 2 more...

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