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rough

4 adverb
     
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1

sleep rough

British English to sleep outside with nothing to protect you from the weather, especially because you have no home to live in:
the number of people sleeping rough on the street
2

play rough

to play in a fairly violent way

➔ cut up rough

at cut1 (6)
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