Meaning & use
raise the roof
To celebrate or cheer very loudly and enthusiastically, often with music, shouting, or applause.
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The crowd raised the roof when the home team scored in the final minute.
Fans raised the roof with cheers the moment the band walked onto the stage.
A note on using this word
Raise the roof is an informal idiom, most common in speech about concerts, parties, or sports celebrations, not literal architecture.
Words with a similar meaning
cheer wildly
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