Usually means: Boisterously lively and amusingly energetic.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word rollicking:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. rollicking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rollicking: Merriam-Webster
  3. rollicking, rollicking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rollicking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rollicking: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rollicking: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rollicking, rollicking: Wordnik
  8. rollicking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rollicking: Wiktionary
  10. rollicking: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Rollicking, rollicking: Dictionary.com
  12. rollicking: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. rollicking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Rollicking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. rollicking: Rhymezone
  16. Rollicking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ROLLICKING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. rollicking: FreeDictionary.org
  19. rollicking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. rollicking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rollicking: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rollicking, rollicking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rollicking: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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▸ noun:  (UK) A scolding, a bollocking.
▸ adjective:  carefree, merry and boisterous

Similar:
frolicsome, playful, frolicky, sportive, coltish, rollocking, licking, rollicker, booling, bollocking, more...

Opposite:
sedate, staid, sober, sober-sided, sobersided

Adjectives:
most, such, whole, same, less, old, own, great, right, close, fine
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Similar:
frolicsome, playful, frolicky, sportive, coltish, rollocking, licking, rollicker, booling, bollocking, more...

Opposite:
sedate, staid, sober, sober-sided, sobersided

Adjectives:
most, such, whole, same, less, old, own, great, right, close, fine



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