Usually means: Unrefined but effective and practical.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word rough and ready:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. rough and ready: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rough-and-ready: Merriam-Webster
  3. rough and ready: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rough-and-ready: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rough-and-ready, rough-and-ready: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rough-and-ready: Vocabulary.com
  7. rough and ready: Wordnik
  8. rough and ready: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rough and Ready, rough-and-ready, rough and ready: Wiktionary
  10. rough-and-ready: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rough-and-ready: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rough and ready, rough-and-ready, rough and ready: Dictionary.com
  13. Rough and Ready (album), Rough and Ready (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. rough-and-ready: Rhymezone
  15. Rough and Ready, Rough and Ready: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. rough-and-ready, rough and ready: FreeDictionary.org
  17. rough-and-ready: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Rough and ready, rough-and-ready: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rough-and-ready: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rough-and-ready: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rough-and-ready, rough and ready: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rough and ready: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (Rough and Ready)

adjective:  (idiomatic, often hyphenated when placed immediately before the modified noun) Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough.
noun:  A census-designated place in Nevada County, California, United States.

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