Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - raring

1. If you say that you are raring to go, you mean that you are very eager to start doing something. After a good night’s sleep, Paul said he was raring to go. PHRASE: V inflects 2. If you are raring to do something or are raring for it, you are very eager to do it or very eager that it should happen. He is raring to charge into the fray and lay down the law... Baker suggested the administration wasn’t raring for a fight. ADJ: v-link ADJ, ADJ to-inf, ADJ for n