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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as rough-house.

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Examples

  • From the muffled growling sounds, I guessed Johnny was rough-housing with Ares in the garage.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • From the muffled growling sounds, I guessed Johnny was rough-housing with Ares in the garage.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Then there is Edward Hall's small, rough-housing Propeller.

    She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012

  • Watson could not recognize himself, nor could his worst enemy have recognized him, in the swashbuckling, rough-housing picture that was painted of him.

    The Benefit of the Doubt 2010

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