roughhouseverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈrʌf.haʊs/us/ˈrʌf.haʊs/US or old-fashionedto fight in a way that is not serious:
A couple of boys were roughhousing (each other) in the park.
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- action stations
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fray
- gunfight
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
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roughhousenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈrʌf.haʊs/us/ˈrʌf.haʊs/US or old-fashioneda fight between many people, without weapons
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Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggro
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious
- atrocity
- confrontation
- desperate
- flex your muscles idiom
- forced
- forcible
- frenzied
- gay-basher
- hostile
- running with blood idiom
- sabre-rattling
- savage
- savagely
- savagery
- steep
- steeped in blood idiom
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