Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To behave or move in a carefree, frolicsome manner; romp.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To move in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; swagger; be jovial in behavior.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To behave in a
playful orcarefree manner; tofrolic orromp
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb play boisterously
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Those of you who remember my "Memorize A Book To Keep Alive In The Post-Apocalyptic World" thread may be interested in rollick's current question:
Ferrett Randomness: Frosting Julie With A Point-Based Sitcom perich 2005
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Getty Images Rose Sloan of River Forest, Ill., misspelled the word "rollick" at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel Thursday.
Meet the Bees 2008
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Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen.
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The ref fails to notice and dimisses the appeals for a penalty.45+1 min: After a bout of Norwich possession, Spurs retrieve the ball and rollick forward.
Norwich City v Tottenham Hotspur – as it happened | Paul Doyle 2011
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This is the band that grumbles along with the desperate yet careless fortitude that it takes to make the unbearable elements of existence become compressed into a four-minute rollick that imparts both malaise and joy.
Angora Holly Polo: The Problem of Leisure: Special UMS 2010 Edition 2010
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The spiritual "Stand by Me" opens as a minimalist meditation, with the vocalist's falsetto set against t he shimmer of Greg Leisz's pedal-steel guitar — but then the piano begins to rollick and a chorus swoops in with prayer-meeting fervor.
Rebuilding in the City Steve Dollar 2010
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In Act III, Scene II, left alone on stage after one of the blissful scenes featuring two of the young couples (Elizabeth and Clerval, Safie and Felix), they rollick through a pun-filled dialogue about a "beehive cap" that Fritz was supposed to bring his wife from "the milliner's at Geneva," a set piece that is followed by an obviously lively vocal duet.
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We see Kassim rollick with his new half-American child, who worships him, "My Daddy is stronger than your Daddy!"
Karin Badt: Child Soldiers on Film: "Kassim the Dream" (I) 2009
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Yes, it was hypocritical of Sarah Palin to pretend that she likes to gussy herself up at thrift stores and make shoes out of moose remains then rollick around in the empress's new clothes.
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- Sam, the "hero" of Brazil, staving off the evil bureaucracy by playing their own game, as gotten by rollick.
Worst. Amusement Park. Ever. cleolinda 2006
oroboros commented on the word rollick
"the buoys that rollick in the bay
they show the way, they show the way..."
December 20, 2006