maffick

verb

Definition of mafficknext
as in to revel

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maffick
  1. revel
  2. carouse
  3. caper
  4. roar
  5. cavort
  6. romp
  7. gambol
  8. frisk
Verb
  • To revel or not to revel:In wake of terror attack, the music is back on in New Orleans FBI provides timeline prior to deadly attack Further investigation revealed that Jabbar stayed at a rental home in New Orleans beginning Oct. 30, 2024, according to Myrthil.
    Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Be open always to the world around you, and the sighting of a fox, say, or a Mozart sonata overheard on a neighbor’s radio, will be reason enough to revel.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 9 Sep. 2024
Definition of revel
Verb
  • From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Serving guests, some of them still carousing from the previous evening out, was never enough.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 July 2024
Definition of carouse
Verb
  • While capering around with her boss, Matty keeps looking for a private moment alone with Olympia’s luggage.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of caper
Verb
  • One of the most popular places to stay in the village is Teton Mountain Lodge and Spa, where a roaring fireplace in the lobby points to the hotel’s cozy and welcoming atmosphere.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Use painters tape on the floor to show the size and scale of furnishings to help give you a feel of the pacing of the room and how easily guests will be able to carry on a conversation even above the crackle of a roaring fireplace.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of roar
Verb
  • For a year or two along the way, Dan's wife, Marilyn, wore a cub costume and also cavorted on the sideline.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Some 500 of them cavorted at Frank Buck’s Jungle Camp on a humanmade structure called Monkey Mountain.
    Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of cavort
Verb
  • In February, Bukele romped to victory, winning an unprecedented second five-year term despite a constitutional ban on consecutive reelection.
    Marcos Alemán, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • England romped home against the Caribbean side and the Sri Lankans this summer at home.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of romp
Verb
  • The new brand’s packaging and visual identity – created by Mexican artist Francisco Herrera and featuring a winged spider monkey — evokes Kahlo’s exotic style, as well as her love of these monkeys, which once gamboled around her garden.
    Joan Oleck, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Those endless summer days spent watching Messi gambol around the football pitches of our souls?
    Jack Lang, The Athletic, 14 July 2024
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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