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Roughhouse

verb
1.
Engage in rough or disorderly play.





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"Roughhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... whiff of this roughhouse and he bolted down again, six steps at a jump. He slipped me so easy I was talking to myself all the way up-stairs. That guy had sense. Petticoat shush-shush can't ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... said, "I told him there was a thousand-dollar filly flaggin' him from the stage door, but he's got a grouch an' won't stir. He's in number seven." She hesitated, at which he said, "Go on—you're in right;" then continued, reassuringly: "Say, pal, if he's your white-haired lad, you needn't start no roughhouse, 'cause he don't flirt wit' these dames none whatever. Naw! Take it ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach


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