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rootin' tootin'

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rootin' tootin'

▶adjective N. Amer. informal boisterous, noisy, or lively.

– origin C19: reduplication of rooting in the sense ‘inquisitive’, an early dial. sense of the compound.

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