What is "roaring boy"

Roar \Roar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roared; p. pr. & vvb. n. Roaring.] [OE. roren, raren, AS. r[=a]rian; akin to G. r["o]hten, OHG. r?r?n. [root]112.]

1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically:

   1. To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.

      Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
      --Spenser.

   2. To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.

      Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
      --Dryden.

      He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger.
      --South.

2. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.

   The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar.
   --Milton.

   How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.
   --Gay.

3. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.

   It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
   --Bp. Burnet.

4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.

5. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.

   Roaring boy, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. ``Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split.''
   --Beau. & Fl.

   Roaring forties (Naut.), a sailor's name for the stormy tract of ocean between 40[deg] and 50[deg] north latitude.