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rough-and-tumble
[ruhf-uhn-tuhm-buhl]
adjective
characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles.
a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
given to such action.
noun
rough and unrestrained competition, fighting, struggling, etc.
rough-and-tumble
noun
a fight or scuffle without rules
adjective
characterized by roughness, disorderliness, and disregard for rules or conventions
Word History and Origins
Origin of rough-and-tumble1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
Whether it’s about Indigenous people and what they had to go through under cowboys, or reclaiming the cowboy spirit of what America was built on — this kind of rough-and-tumble existence.
Bottle kicking is not the only peculiar rough-and-tumble English tradition that comes with a risk of injury.
Her swift rise through San Francisco’s rough-and-tumble politics were defined by days in courtrooms representing victims and nights at glitzy political galas.
Harris is the biracial daughter of immigrants whose career was forged by the rough-and-tumble Democratic politics of the Bay Area — a place nationally synonymous with West Coast liberalism.
Harris, a former prosecutor, is a product of the same rough-and-tumble Bay Area politics that produced some of the nation’s most high-profile Democrats, including Newsom, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and former U.S.
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