roughhouse

Meanings

adjectiveroughhouse (comparative more roughhouse, superlative most roughhouse)

comparative more roughhouse · superlative most roughhouse · alternative rough house · alternative rough-house

idiomaticOf behavior, rowdy, boisterous, or fighting.
The film presents Gia as a roughhouse girl plopped down in the world of instant fame, sex, money, and drugs.
2009, Jerry Roberts, Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors, page 107

nounroughhouse (uncountable)

alternative rough house · alternative rough-house

verbroughhouse (third-person singular simple present roughhouses, present participle roughhousing, simple past and past participle roughhoused)

present singular third person roughhouses · participle present roughhousing · participle past roughhoused · past roughhoused · alternative rough house · alternative rough-house

To behave rowdily or violently.
1. intransitiveTo play roughly (with physical roughness).
  Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing, until the police drove by.
  Synonyms: horseplay
2. intransitiveTo commit physical assault.
  Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing, until the police drove by.
transitiveTo treat (someone or something) roughly or violently.
Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing a victim, until the police drove by.
Synonyms: rough up, work over