1 an occasion when someone tells you in a very angry way that you have done something wrong: --
2 (esp. of an experience or story) happening with a lot of fast action and good humor and often noise: --
I could hear them rollicking and singing.
The idea that a sailor is a kind of lovable, rollicking, seagoing, fighting animal ought to be dead, even if it is not altogether dead today.
I hope that they will agree at, on reflection—never mind the rollicking — it would not be right to force the legislation through.
Such a suggestion seems, in the context of all we know about drinking and driving, to convey an ethic of almost rollicking irresponsibility.
Then lie was a rollicking, careless, devil-may-care sort of fellow; the last idea in his head was thrift.
I was going to begin by saying that he made a rollicking speech.
I admit that it makes a rollicking serial.
I quite understand that they now, in the lean years of disaster, look back with pleasurable emotion to the rollicking days of their triumphs.
