Usually means: Endure basic conditions without luxuries.
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  1. rough it: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rough it: Merriam-Webster
  3. rough it: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rough it: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rough it: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. rough it: Wiktionary
  7. rough it: Dictionary.com
  8. rough it: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rough it: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rough it: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rough-it: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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▸ verb:  (colloquial) To endure hard living conditions; to live without ordinary comforts.

Similar:
live rough, tough out, suffer, do it tough, thug it out, hold out, go through hell, take one's lumps, ride out, lump it, more...

Phrases:
to rough it, more...

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Similar:
live rough, tough out, suffer, do it tough, thug it out, hold out, go through hell, take one's lumps, ride out, lump it, more...

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to rough it, more...



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