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- verb Present participle of
roughhouse .
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Examples
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My Grandfather used this method to prove that a mysterious hole that appeared in the wall when he left my Father and uncles alone in the house wasn't caused by "roughhousing" as they claimed.
Retrieve Valuables From Your Drain With A Vacuum And Pantyhose | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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But he acknowledges that children behave differently today consuming both passive and active violent media imagery and that the physical "roughhousing" that resulted from earlier media violence is now missing.
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But he acknowledges that children behave differently today consuming both passive and active violent media imagery and that the physical "roughhousing" that resulted from earlier media violence is now missing.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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My Grandfather used this method to prove that a mysterious hole that appeared in the wall when he left my Father and uncles alone in the house wasn't caused by "roughhousing" as they claimed.
Retrieve Valuables From Your Drain With A Vacuum And Pantyhose | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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And then they said, ` Well, let's tussle and scuffle, 'which is kind of roughhousing, and Lincoln said he wouldn't do that.
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Clark asks if someone was ever "roughhousing" and had their head under water.
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Clark asks if someone was ever "roughhousing" and had their head under water.
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Imaginary play and tumbling around in the sort of mock battles that my parents used to call "roughhousing" are both key for children to successfully acquire social skills, reduce stress, improve cognition and develop problem-solving abilities.
Scientific American 2009
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Imaginary play and tumbling around in the sort of mock battles that my parents used to call "roughhousing" are both key for children to successfully acquire social skills, reduce stress, improve cognition and develop problem-solving abilities.
Scientific American 2009
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"roughhousing" and wanting to "be a sport," yet in frail beauty and faded crimson banners finding such exaltation as Schoenstrom had never known.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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