ROUGHHOUSE meaning: Playful, rough, and boisterous behavior

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General (19 matching dictionaries)

roughhouse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roughhouse: Merriam-Webster
roughhouse, roughhouse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
roughhouse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
roughhouse: Collins English Dictionary
roughhouse: Vocabulary.com
roughhouse: Wordnik
roughhouse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
roughhouse: Wiktionary
roughhouse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
roughhouse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
roughhouse: Infoplease Dictionary
roughhouse: Dictionary.com
roughhouse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Roughhouse (band), Roughhouse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
roughhouse: FreeDictionary.org
roughhouse: Mnemonic Dictionary
roughhouse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

roughhouse, roughhouse, roughhouse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See roughhoused as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  rowdy behaviour
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To behave rowdily or violently.
▸ verb:  To play roughly (with physical roughness).
▸ verb:  To commit physical assault.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To treat (someone or something) roughly or violently.

Similar:

roistering, ongang, ruckus, ruff, grabass, gilravage, ruction, rough, rumble, brattery, more...

Opposite:

gentle play, calm play, peaceful play, quiet play

Types:

pillow fight, wrestling, tickle fight, slap fight, mud fight, more...

Adjectives:

general, little, political, more, sexual, continuous, physical, usual

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