Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
rough-house .
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Examples
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From the muffled growling sounds, I guessed Johnny was rough-housing with Ares in the garage.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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From the muffled growling sounds, I guessed Johnny was rough-housing with Ares in the garage.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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He was a big brute of a man, a veritable gorilla, one of those hard-hitting, rough-housing chaps, and clever with his fists as well.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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He was a big brute of a man, a veritable gorilla, one of those hard-hitting, rough-housing chaps, and clever with his fists as well.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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He was a big brute of a man, a veritable gorilla, one of those hard-hitting, rough-housing chaps, and clever with his fists as well.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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I try to teach them now just about playground rough-housing, bullying and craziness that walking away is not enough.
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Monsters | Her Bad Mother 2009
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First set: Djokovic 1-2 *Nadal *denotes server Djokovic puts his Doc Martens on and stamps all over the first rally, and does likewise with the second, rough-housing the points from Nadal.
Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal - as it happened! | John Ashdown 2011
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Instead of one big dorm complex, inhabited only by the Giants and their coaches, they are on three floors of a hotel, where other guests are staying and where the, ahem, rough-housing is frowned upon.
A Retooled Giants O-Line, Without the Pranks...So Far Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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Then there is Edward Hall's small, rough-housing Propeller.
She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012
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Watson could not recognize himself, nor could his worst enemy have recognized him, in the swashbuckling, rough-housing picture that was painted of him.
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