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Rollicking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rollic

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Managers get furious rollickings should they not 'get out the cheque book' during the transfer window, more so if they 'only' buy an English player.
  • (2) Republican debate: Las Vegas fight night was rollicking from start to finish Read more Paul was not the only candidate to be demoted to the undercard debate.
  • (3) A rollicking maritime adventure movie about the mysterious Captain Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus, the original 20,000 Leagues featured Douglas alongside James Mason as Nemo.
  • (4) 62 min: Belhadj rollicks down the left again and delivers a fine cross, which Bocanegra clears at a stretch.
  • (5) Following that came the superior Tommy Heavenly6, for which she adopted a goth-lite style and made rollicking 90s-style alt-rock.
  • (6) The low rectangular houses being built at Old Sarum are based on hut sites excavated by Prof Mike Parker Pearson a few miles from Stonehenge, at Durrington Walls, which he believes were occupied by the monument builders and also the scene of great mid-winter and mid-summer feasts that lasted for rollicking days and nights.
  • (7) As for Serena’s great rival, Sharapova, she was seen off by Kerber in a rollicking fourth-round match on a sun-dappled, cabriolet Centre Court: 7-6, 4-6, 6-4.
  • (8) Relations between the two, always fractious, probably weren't helped by the publication last year of Richards's rollicking autobiography, Life , in which he claimed – among other things – that Jagger was "unbearable" and in possession of "a tiny todger… he's got an enormous pair of balls – but it doesn't quite fill the gap".
  • (9) The morning is so pallid that the only colour seems to come from his collection of rollicking abstract paintings by Gillian Ayres .
  • (10) A rollicking playboy type himself, Buss was instrumental in turning the Lakers into Los Angeles's team, complete with an aura of glitz and glamor.
  • (11) Pacquiao reclaimed the welterweight title he surrendered amid controversy to Bradley two years ago, rectifying one of the most mystifying decisions in boxing history with a clinical points victory before 15,601 rollicking fans.
  • (12) 8.36pm BST Half-time: It's been rollicking fare so far and that Commons goal was the perfect tee-up for an explosive second period.
  • (13) But you have seen nothing like it before.” Eubank Sr is in rollicking form and it feels like the old days as he regales me with tales of darkness and destruction – in the tortuously modulated manner of a fighter once famous for wearing jodhpurs and a monocle.
  • (14) Germany 's service sector is growing steadily, with a PMI of 54.7 (down from January's rollicking 55.7, though).
  • (15) In 1970 they reached No 12 with the rollicking single Down the Dustpipe, but the ensuing albums Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon (1970) and Dog of Two Head (1971), their first without Lynes, were unsuccessful.
  • (16) In one case his features would be set in a brooding scowl of powerful, almost somnolent, determination; at another moment he resembled a rollicking cherubic schoolboy.
  • (17) Trump counters misogyny allegations by saying Fiorina has a 'beautiful face' Read more With the mood swinging from a rollicking family argument to uncomfortably personal confrontation to shared disdain for liberals, the debate showcased a race with an unusual number of candidates from unusually diverse backgrounds making creative plays for the Republican base.
  • (18) Over a rollicking accordion line, it narrates how Atillano is captured by the Mexican army, and tortured until he agrees to fly them to the cartel's secret landing strip.
  • (19) Ben Cort's witty and vibrant illustrations are the perfect match for Claire Freedman's rollicking text.
  • (20) I have a feeling up in the actual venue is quite rollicking but we've just been told to "keep the volume at a sensible limit".

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