roaring

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Editorial note

The timing was 1924 - the roaring 20s.

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Quick take

a deep prolonged loud noise

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of roaring gathered in one view.

noun

a deep prolonged loud noise

noun

a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"

adjective

very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for roaring.

noun

a deep prolonged loud noise

noun

a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"

adjective

adverb

extremely; "roaring drunk"

Example sentences

The timing was 1924 - the roaring 20s.

If that were true, then the Camba should have been roaring drunks and alcoholics.

Two thoughts come to mind when I hear a V8/12 roaring down the street: "out-of-touch boomer" and "sea level rise".

Tens of thousands of CPU's around the world are roaring to this web page, causing enough global warming to melt buckets of ice.

Vista had even more problems, and Microsoft still came roaring back with a very successful Windows 7.

She says she will "roar back" and considers that a threat of retaliation that might deter them, but she is talking to people who don't mind roaring at all.

One was on the west side of Chicago, a high-end Lexus on the side of the road roaring with flames as if someone had thrown a grenade into it.

There was a small downtick in the economy, shortly, not unlike the downtick in US after WWI that ushered in the roaring twenties.

First of all, seasoned people aren't going to work for deferred cash only, knowing that companies rarely pay it back until they're roaring successes.

All that stuff about the community 'roaring' is avoidable hyperbole.

People start taking all those PCs they bought and hooking them together into networks... and suddenly all those things you were worried about back in the day come roaring back to bite them.

If an errant cigarette is enough to bring down a plane why does the TSA strip search me looking for a bomb?I bet you could get a pretty roaring fire going using the 120v outlet and all the paper goods provided in the bathroom.

There was a time when everyone thought Apple would rule the world with the Mac, it was so much better than DOS, and then MS came roaring back with windows, then people thought Apple was down for the count and they came roaring back with the the Ipod and Iphone.

Therefore, the government has the unique ability to act in a counter cyclical manner - it can counteract the collective saving of businesses/households to stimulate demand during recessions, and pull back when the private sector is roaring.