Usually means: Sleeping outside without permanent shelter.
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  1. sleep rough: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sleep rough: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sleep rough: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sleep rough: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. sleep rough: Wiktionary

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▸ verb:  (idiomatic) Of a homeless person, to sleep outdoors, particularly as opposed to sleeping in a shelter or similar.

Similar:
live rough, sleep out, camp out, rough it, sleep around, roughen, outlie, sleep on, ride roughshod over, rough, more...

Opposite:
sleep comfortably, sleep indoors

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Similar:
live rough, sleep out, camp out, rough it, sleep around, roughen, outlie, sleep on, ride roughshod over, rough, more...

Opposite:
sleep comfortably, sleep indoors



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