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roughhouse

/noun ruhf-hous; verb ruhf-hous, -houz/US // noun ˈrʌfˌhaʊs; verb ˈrʌfˌhaʊs, -ˌhaʊz //UK // (ˈrʌfˌhaʊs) slang //

粗制滥造,粗野的房子,粗制滥造的东西

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n.名词 noun
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    plural rough·hous·es [ruhf-hou-ziz]. /ˈrʌfˌhaʊ zɪz/.

    • : rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
v.无主动词 verb
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    rough·housed [ruhf-houst, -houzd], /ˈrʌfˌhaʊst, -ˌhaʊzd/, rough·hous·ing [ruhf-hou-sing, -zing]. /ˈrʌfˌhaʊ sɪŋ, -zɪŋ/.

    • : to engage in rough, disorderly play.
v.有主动词 verb
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    rough·housed [ruhf-houst, -houzd], /ˈrʌfˌhaʊst, -ˌhaʊzd/, rough·hous·ing [ruhf-hou-sing, -zing]. /ˈrʌfˌhaʊ sɪŋ, -zɪŋ/.

    • : to handle roughly but with playful intent: to roughhouse the cat.

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Examples

  • She don't seem nervous or panicky at all, like most women would, breakin' in on a roughhouse scene like that.

  • Then, when the roughhouse came, these pajamas were swept along in the sacking—sort of spoils of pillage, you know.

  • What a, as one might say, roughhouse might it not—er—precipitate!

  • I didnt want the boys riding over there and starting a roughhouse at the Tin Can Saloon.

  • There were gangs of good-natured rowdies, and there were roughhouse communities in pioneer days.