Meaning & use
Roughhousing
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Rough, boisterous physical play, often among children or friends.
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There was so much roughhousing in the living room that a lamp nearly fell.
Their roughhousing usually ends with someone laughing too hard to continue.
A note on using this word
Combines "rough" with "house," originally describing rowdy indoor behavior before broadening to any boisterous physical play.
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