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
  • The video sweeps around a reveling fiefdom, showing everyone from peasants to dukes partying and getting it on.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Navarrete reveled with one woman over her husband’s release from a detention facility.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of revel
Verb
  • There are certainly fans and pundits who feel that anything short of a title shouldn’t be celebrated in sports, and some who think carousing over anything less is especially beneath the Yankees, who have won 27 World Series but zero since 2009.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Three sitting rooms are complemented by a further three members’ social spaces for carousing in, concealed behind a subtle screen (here, DJs including Goldierocks make appearances, and mobile snaps are banned; staff politely place a sticker over mobile camera lenses).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
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
  • Tiny Guna capered about barefoot, hopping on the balls of his feet.
    — Guy Trebay, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2016
Definition of caper
Verb
  • And when Brooks mentioned the guy was from Topeka, the crowd roared even louder.
    — Rashad Alexander November 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Amid slipping vaccination rates nationwide and the spread of anti-vaccine misinformation and rhetoric, the virus has come roaring back, and the country’s elimination status is likely to be stripped.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of roar
Verb
  • When Oscar halfheartedly tries to throw a ball into one of the set’s prop cubes and improbably makes the shot, the whole set goes joyously nuts, with the performers leaping up to embrace him and cavort around him.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
  • There’s also less of the eccentric charm that’s to be found in Wenders’ other docs, like the bits in Pina where the dancers cavort around in scruffy parts of Wuppertal where their home Dance Theater is based.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of cavort
Verb
  • The playground, called The Yard, resembles a junkyard where kids are given free rein to saw plywood by hand, romp in mud pits, and nail together structures to climb and jump from.
    — Marina Lopes, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2026
  • But Waititi, who wrote and directed the film, forgoes any attempt to capture the book’s existential depth, offering a manic, lighthearted robot romp instead.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of romp
Verb
  • Humanoids marched, backflipped, and twirled nunchucks; robotic pandas gambolled.
    — Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The foundation's dogs typically eat about 10 metric tons (22,046 pounds) of dry food each year and spend their summers gamboling in the remnants of snow in the mountains before heading 40 kilometers (25 miles) down winding roads back to the kennel in Barryland.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 June 2026
Definition of gambol
Verb
  • In each arrest, police frisked, read Miranda rights to, cuffed and transported volunteers to the Palo Alto police station.
    — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Guns and knives were frisked from Argentina fans on their way from the docks, while Belgian referee John Langenus requested a police escort and a ship ready to take him away after the match.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 June 2026
Definition of frisk
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