roaring

alternative roarin'

1. informalIntensive; 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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   But finally we came to a river with hundreds of boats upon it, and there was a magnificent bridge, and on the other bank was a roaring city, and through the fog the rain came down thick as the tears of the angels. "That 's London," said I.

   1903, Robert Barr, chapter 17, in The O'Ruddy

   Things looked bleak until Gutenberg had a moment of inspiration that not only solved his problem but also got the Renaissance off to a roaring start and simultaneously created of^([sic]) the pornography industry as we know it today.

   2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 46

   Some of the worst offenders were rounded up and sent home as Rozhestvensky's health began to recover. But this further diminished the fleet's manpower. And, at the same time, many of the officers were quite-happily unaware that anything was going on, having discovered that Madagascar did a roaring trade in various high-strength drugs. One officer had brought^([sic – meaning bought?]) 2,000 cigarettes, and they were found to all be filled with opium, much to the joy of all those who could get their hands on them before they were confiscated.

   2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 35:45 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2022

   Synonyms: thriving, prosperous, bustling, bustling, flourishing, fortunate, lucky, privileged

alternative roarin'

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of roar

plural roarings · alternative roarin'

1. countableuncountableA loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.

   […] those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.

   1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 56

2. countableuncountableAn affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.