Definition of roughhouse
: violence or rough boisterous play
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Examples of roughhouse in a Sentence
their parents simply wouldn't tolerate any roughhouse in the living room
Recent Examples of roughhouse from the Web
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In one such glimpse of sublimity, a group of young Native American rodeo riders drink beer, roughhouse, and sing songs in the immensity of the Badlands surrounding the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in South Dakota.
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There’s also a chance McGregor flusters him with the same kind of roughhouse tactics that worked for Marcos Maidana in their first fight.
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First Known Use of roughhouse
1882
roughhouse Synonyms
Synonyms
buffoonery, clownery, clowning, foolery, high jinks (also hijinks), horseplay, horsing around, monkey business, monkeying, monkeyshine(s), roughhousing, shenanigan(s), skylarking, tomfoolery;
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childishness, clownishness, foolishness, funning, jesting, joking, nonsense, silliness, waggery;
boisterousness, rambunctiousness, rowdiness, rowdyism, devilry (or deviltry), impishness, knavery, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, trickery;
cavorting, frivolity, frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), merrymaking, playfulness, revelry, roistering, romping, sporting, sportiveness;
Definition of roughhouse
: to engage in roughhouse
Examples of roughhouse in a Sentence
The kids were roughhousing in the living room.
Recent Examples of roughhouse from the Web
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Nutmeg, a 4-year-old mother red panda, and her cub, 6-month-old Jackie, can be seen in the video playfully swatting and roughhousing with each other.
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But that defeat–to a tough, plodding, roughhousing opponent who came in overweight and utilized what could fairly be described as questionable tactics–only underscored the importance of Lomachenko’s footwork.
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The roughhousing ranges from Lopez putting wrestling holds on opposing mascots to battling them with Star Wars light sabers or even hitting them on the head with poster boards.
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At first, everything’s lovingly quirky — Bear smoking his pipe in the cramped studio, roughhousing with Pinch; Natalie neglecting her pottery to accommodate Bear’s manic fits of creativity.
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The Pilot Rock second-grader rode his bike, scarfed down molasses cookies after school and roughhoused with his three step-brothers.
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Many of the children remember playing catch, joking and roughhousing with him.
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Their favorite moments are the unscripted ones after 9 p.m., shut-off time for electronic devices, when the whole gang tumbles into the living room, roughhousing, giggling, asking questions, talking — as families do — about nothing and everything.
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This was the place where my brother accidentally gave me a bloody nose roughhousing one day.
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First Known Use of roughhouse
1898
ROUGHHOUSE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of roughhouse for English Language Learners
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: to play in a rough and noisy way
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