Pronunciation: /rʌf.haʊs/
noun a rough or rowdy play or activity
A1 The children were playing roughhouse in the backyard.
A2 I don't like it when they roughhouse around the house.
B1 The roughhouse between the two siblings got out of hand.
B2 The roughhouse at the party led to a few broken items.
C1 The roughhouse at the bar escalated into a physical altercation.
C2 The roughhouse between the rival gangs turned into a full-blown riot.
verb to engage in rough or rowdy play or activity
A1 The children like to roughhouse in the backyard.
A2 The siblings roughhouse playfully, but sometimes it gets too rough.
B1 It's not appropriate to roughhouse in the office, please save it for the playground.
B2 The group of friends roughhoused in the park, causing a bit of a commotion.
C1 The athletes were warned not to roughhouse during practice to avoid any injuries.
C2 Despite being professional fighters, they knew not to roughhouse outside of the ring.
formal The children were reprimanded for engaging in roughhouse play in the schoolyard.
informal The kids were roughhousing in the backyard and having a blast.
slang Stop roughhousing with your siblings, you're going to break something!
figurative The political debate turned into a roughhouse argument with both candidates attacking each other's policies.
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