as in roughhousing
wildly playful or mischievous behavior
their parents simply wouldn't tolerate any roughhouse in the living room
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as in to wrestle
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as in to cut up
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Recent Examples of roughhouse
Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
Chewy orecchiette roughhouse with big hunks of sausage and broccolini, enrobed in a rich goat cheese fonduta.
—Dominic Armato, azcentral, 16 July 2019
Sandy West, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2023
In another, my son roughhoused with friends and Buddy attacked.
—Michelle Madden, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
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Noun
Phil bitterly watches from a distance while his fellow cowhands roughhouse, bathe together and chase prostitutes at a local saloon.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
Chewy orecchiette roughhouse with big hunks of sausage and broccolini, enrobed in a rich goat cheese fonduta.
—Dominic Armato, azcentral, 16 July 2019
Verb
Raised on her family’s farm in conservative Nebraska in the 1960s and ’70s, Ashley Swartz took her cues about life from her surroundings: At home, the men worked the farm; elsewhere, boys roughhoused and participated in sports; at church, there was good and there was evil.
—Sandy West, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2023
In another, my son roughhoused with friends and Buddy attacked.
—Michelle Madden, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roughhouse
Verb
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This declaration of wrestling royalty hits many fans strongly.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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Paulie eventually wrestles control of it, but not before Reacher can plug the barrel with a bullet.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Skrillex has never restricted his distension of sonic materials to merely supersizing his bass lines, and among other things, the voices on this album are routinely phased and retuned and cut up.—
Michaelangelo Matos,
Rolling Stone,
1 Apr. 2025
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Here, Pulisic cuts up the left channel to offer a destination for a through ball.—
Jeff Rueter,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But Lively did believe she had been harassed and mistreated on set, the filing claims, making the defamation accusation false.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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In a series of posts on X Monday (March 17), the star clapped back at critics of her new music before calling out the way Black women have historically been mistreated.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
18 Mar. 2025
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Its governor, Edward Jackson, was a close friend of the the Indiana Klan leader, D. C. Stephenson, a pudgy man with a reputation for high living, carousing, and trouble with the law.—
Tara McAndrew,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Jan. 2017
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From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Dec. 2024
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The action anime feature for everyone who couldn’t get enough of the horseplay in The Two Towers has finally cantered onto Max.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
1 Mar. 2025
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Key speeches are faithfully delivered to an audience of two, not thousands; a scene of soldiers destructively revelling on a bridge is given a different spirit by ironic, out-of-time horseplay.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The hotel and bar had been closed since 2018, but then was pummeled by an out-of-control truck in 2019.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2025
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Pacific Northwest could be pummeled by egg-sized hail in rare spring thunderstorms The Pacific Northwest isn’t a hotspot for damaging thunderstorms – especially in early spring – but that could change.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2025
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Directing actors who make all the physical transitions onstage in between scenes also appeals to Saur, whose professional resume includes acting, acrobatics, clowning and drag.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult and David Corenswet clowned around onstage during the Superman presentation at CinemaCon.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Key speeches are faithfully delivered to an audience of two, not thousands; a scene of soldiers destructively revelling on a bridge is given a different spirit by ironic, out-of-time horseplay.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
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Another interesting finding from the clinical trial that was more recently reveled is the reduction of visceral fat.—
Yola Robert,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Roughhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roughhouse. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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