2. Adjective. excellent ¹
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Definition of Ripsnorting
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ripsnorting
Literary usage of Ripsnorting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"In six days we had two stiff blows, and, in addition, one proper south- wester
and one ripsnorting southeaster. The slight intervals between these blows ..."
2. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry Charles Lahee (1898)
"... back- action, self-adjusting, chronometer-balanced, full- jewelled, fourth-proof,
ripsnorting conglomeration comes to town, he proposes to hump himself. ..."
3. Bill Nye's Sparks by Bill Nye (1901)
"Of course you cannot teach a boy how to jerk a giant journal from the clutches
of decay and make of it a robust and ripsnorting shaper and trimmer of public ..."
4. The Book of Jack London by Charmian London (1921)
"In six days we had two stiff blows, and, in addition, one proper south- wester
and one ripsnorting southeaster. The slight intervals between these blows ..."
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