roughhouse AmE informal

But this is just a bit of roughhouse between the dinosaurs.

He told me he'd been having a roughhouse with a fellow who'd annoyed him.

How could he have been a roughhouse basketball player of well over two hundred pounds?

They again made the Bulls play their roughhouse, low-scoring game.

He would allow a little roughhouse so long as his authority wasn't challenged.

Dim that radio and stop the roughhouse in here.

Slick likes to roughhouse, but at least he doesn't hit me.

He didn't like roughhouse tactics, found no thrill in fear.

"They're extra strong; they know how to brawl and roughhouse.

As you've probably noticed, there's a lot of roughhouse and ghoulish stage business in this scene.

He was a roughhouse, but sometimes he was good to me.

"Yes; I got a roughhouse from the donkey and the elephant.

She approximated now the film director's idea of the heroine after a roughhouse, rather than the genuine thing.

"I never stirred up as much roughhouse as you did this morning.

It's like a roughhouse with the lights out.

Yes, he can be a hellion and accrue fines for his roughhouse play.

He and I had a little roughhouse before I locked him up.

They have now agreed to a deadline: if her gentle ways do not train the dog in a month, he may use his roughhouse methods.

"Everything's on hold now, but at least I've been able to move better, play roughhouse with my kids around the house," Blackman said.

The trainers feed and roughhouse with Parmesan, then clip on a leash.

He looks like just a roughhouse player, but he thinks a lot out there, too."

But he said everyone on or near the court in Chicago last Saturday night understood the consequences if the roughhouse play continued.

"I would not call it roughhouse," Dmitriev said through an interpreter.

But he had to humor the roughhouse traditions.

If there's a roughhouse, you, Masson, take on the second one.