roaring

adjective

1. 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. […]”

2. 2

   Very successful; lively.

   The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.

   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.

   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.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of roarpresent participle and gerund of roar

noun

1. 1

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

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

2. 2

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

Forms

plural

roarings