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hastily or roughly constructed
- the announcement of his candidacy was made from a rough-and-tumble stage put together just that morning
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a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people
- a rough-and-tumble broke out among the fans in the stands
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“Rough-and-tumble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rough-and-tumble. Accessed 13 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of rough-and-tumble was in 1810
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