Meaning & use
Raring
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extremely eager and enthusiastic to do something
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The kids were raring to go the moment they saw the amusement park gates.
After a week off, she was raring to get back to work.
A note on using this word
Almost always appears in the fixed phrase "raring to go"; it derives from a dialectal form of "rearing," as a horse rears up eager to run.
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