roar : Idioms & Phrases


rip-roaring

  • adjective satellite uncontrollably noisy
    rackety; uproarious.
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roar off

  • verb leave
    • The car roared off into the fog
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Roaring boy

  • a roaring, noisy fellow; name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. "Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split." Beau & Fl.
Webster 1913

Roaring forties

  • (Naut.), a sailor's name for the stormy tract of ocean between 40° and 50° north latitude.
Webster 1913