rough-house
Example Sentences
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Can Hun Manet modify the rough-house, sometimes thuggish leadership style of his father to a softer and more subtle kind of rule?
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2023
"It was an all-boys school, we would rough-house with each other," he said said.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2018
I love being around men – I love fake fighting and all that rough-house stuff – but after a while I really missed my girlfriends.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2012
Also, he did not want to risk looking bad against rough-house specialist Chisora, because that would seriously weaken his bargaining position with Haye.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2010
What did I mean—me, a rough-house scrapper from the red-light section—by buttin' into a peaceful community and insultin' the oldest inhabitants?
From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson
