maffick

verb

Definition of mafficknext
as in to revel

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  1. revel
  2. carouse
  3. caper
  4. roar
  5. cavort
  6. romp
  7. gambol
  8. frisk
Verb
  • Cramer noted that Price appeared to revel after Ford had his fingerprints and picture taken during the county’s standard booking process.
    East Bay Times editorial, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The org reveled winners for its North America, Global, Latin America and Local competitions on Thursday night at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of revel
Verb
  • Serving guests, some of them still carousing from the previous evening out, was never enough.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 July 2024
  • While more of a household name in Great Britain, Wakeman’s ethereal-sorcerer persona onstage was matched in his heyday for barroom carousing and insolvency.
    Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of carouse
Verb
  • Chapman persuaded Ford Motor Co. to fulfill his V-8 engine requirements and built the first of what were to become revolutionary Lotus-Fords, pencil-thin cars that looked like spiders capering through the turns.
    Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • The plot dissolves into sheer lunacy (in both senses of the word), as the whole company comes out to caper in a park in the moonlight — ostensibly to frighten Falstaff, but really just for the unleashed joy of taking over a public space.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2021
Definition of caper
Verb
  • In the middle of the night, a fire on a playground on Cincinnati's riverfront grew into a roaring fireball that caused significant damage to the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge, a major artery connecting the city to Northern Kentucky.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Buffett’s conservative posture comes as the stock market has roared higher this year on expectations for a smooth landing for the economy as inflation comes down and the Federal Reserve keeps cutting interest rates.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of roar
Verb
  • Celebrities regularly cavorted in Tramp, the glitzy nightclub that first made a splash in London’s Mayfair in 1969.
    Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Drummers beat time, firecrackers burst and fizz, and demons cavort and dance.
    Matt Ralphs, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of cavort
Verb
  • More:Def Leppard, Journey and Steve Miller romp through five hours of rock sing-alongs Dave Mason is still moving forward Despite Mason’s journeyman career playing with musical greats, his personal life often took dark turns.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Glenn throttled Metzenbaum in the primary, with more than 56% of the vote, and romped in the general election over Cleveland’s Republican Mayor Ralph J. Perk.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 July 2024
Definition of romp
Verb
  • Amongst the ornate grandeur of the state rooms and bedrooms, hung in with priceless tapestries and embroideries of gambolling classical Arcadian subjects and vast likenesses of Stuart kings and queens, her work is arresting at every turn.
    Sarah Mower, Vogue, 1 July 2024
  • For California’s governor, who loves gamboling on a national stage, the whole evening was a lark.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
Definition of gambol
Verb
  • The lawyer also stated that the women were restrained and frisked by male officers, even though female officers were present.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
  • British soldiers, brought in to suppress a Catholic civil-rights movement, ran checkpoints, frisked young men, and stopped drivers for the smallest infractions.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
Definition of frisk
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