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

What is “the Cardiff way”? It’s currently the Warnock way: direct, long ball, rough-house.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2018

"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

They're all right for cleaning up a rough-house, but don't cut any figure in fine art work like we'll put over.

From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Stead, Robert J. C.