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
  • But historically Black colleges and universities have reason to revel, as some have seen record increases.
    Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Long after the stadium had cleared out, her fans could still be heard reveling outside on the concourse.
    Zack Pierce, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 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
  • But Ball – just 2-for-9 from the field in the first half – erased the deficit with a personal 5-0 flurry, making a layup through traffic and a 3-pointer from the wing that made the crowd roar.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The maverick says he was almost wiped out by the 1997 Asian financial crisis and again in December 2004 when a tsunami roared across many parts of Asia, killing at least 225,000 people, including guests and staff at his Anantara resort at Khao Lak, north of Phuket.
    Ron Gluckman, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of roar
Verb
  • 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
  • Thus Andy Dixon paints Day-Glo takes on Rococo romances, with sculptural nudes draped in loose tunics cavorting around pleasure gardens dotted with classical statuary; these same motifs are distilled into dainty arabesques and diaphanous whorls in the abstract canvases of Michaela Yearwood-Dan.
    Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of cavort
Verb
  • England romped home against the Caribbean side and the Sri Lankans this summer at home.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Max Verstappen has romped to four consecutive drivers’ titles, his latest confirmed with a fifth-place finish at last week’s race in Las Vegas, while the Dutchman’s Red Bull team has captured the previous two constructors’ titles.
    Aleks Klosok, CNN, 29 Nov. 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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