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roughhouse

[ruhf-hous, ruhf-hous, -houz] / ˈrʌfˌhaʊs, ˈrʌfˌhaʊs, -ˌhaʊz /
NOUN
roughness
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Now here comes Kansas, hurled atop the roughhouse West Region and told to function as best it can.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2023

From there, different individuals paired off to chase one another, wrestle and generally roughhouse.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Mauro Bellugi pestered Brooking in the roughhouse style.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2021

He told his uncle that he didn’t talk when he wasn’t supposed to, didn’t roughhouse, that he helped pick up things from the floor and helped the teacher pass out papers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2019

Finally, she’d found a playmate she could roughhouse with.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan




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