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- verb Present participle of
roust .
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Examples
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From the Key West Citizen: KEY WEST -- The city plans to begin rousting sleeping homeless people from Mallory Square and taking their fingerprints and pictures before handing them a 24-hour warning to leave the waterfront park.
December 2003 2003
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I hope no one has gotten the impression that I'm interested in defending the idea of rousting tent cities.
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It's a pretty poor stick of a white man that can't find something better than 'rousting' on a steamboat. "
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
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To be young again and rousting about with a beauty like … He paused.
On The Sly Ron Earl Phillips 2011
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Speaking of which and as you're probably aware, city governments all over the country have now deployed against us their black-booted militia, rousting us, in the middle of the night, from the public spaces we have been both literally and figuratively occupying.
John Shore: An Open Letter From the Heart of OWS: "We ARE the Message" John Shore 2011
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Speaking of which and as you're probably aware, city governments all over the country have now deployed against us their black-booted militia, rousting us, in the middle of the night, from the public spaces we have been both literally and figuratively occupying.
John Shore: An Open Letter From the Heart of OWS: "We ARE the Message" John Shore 2011
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Even Juan Agudelo, the United States' 18-year-old goal scorer, was not spared a rousting when Howard did not like his positioning on a free kick.
Howard Vs. Messi Was a Soccer Showdown for the Ages Joshua Robinson 2011
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Speaking of which and as you're probably aware, city governments all over the country have now deployed against us their black-booted militia, rousting us, in the middle of the night, from the public spaces we have been both literally and figuratively occupying.
John Shore: An Open Letter From the Heart of OWS: "We ARE the Message" John Shore 2011
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Speaking of which and as you're probably aware, city governments all over the country have now deployed against us their black-booted militia, rousting us, in the middle of the night, from the public spaces we have been both literally and figuratively occupying.
John Shore: An Open Letter From the Heart of OWS: "We ARE the Message" John Shore 2011
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The law, which authorizes county police to stop anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant, resulted in the rousting of dark-skinned people in cars, Gomez said.
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