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- verb Present participle of
rough-and-tumble .
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Examples
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Just at that moment, her eyes flickered past him to the three boys who were still rough-and-tumbling at the end of the corridor.
The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004
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Just at that moment, her eyes flickered past him to the three boys who were still rough-and-tumbling at the end of the corridor.
The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004
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Just at that moment, her eyes flickered past him to the three boys who were still rough-and-tumbling at the end of the corridor.
The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004
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Just at that moment, her eyes flickered past him to the three boys who were still rough-and-tumbling at the end of the corridor.
The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004
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Just at that moment, her eyes flickered past him to the three boys who were still rough-and-tumbling at the end of the corridor.
The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004
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If your mind needs a tonic of iron and wine, and a thorough rough-and-tumbling, try Samuel Butler's
The Haunted Bookshop 1918
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If your mind needs a tonic of iron and wine, and a thorough rough-and-tumbling, try Samuel Butler's
The Haunted Bookshop 1918
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Then, when he was privileged to behold him rough-and-tumbling with Wally, singing idiotic choruses with Norah and Tommy, or making himself into what little Babs
Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918
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Though right now they're very young and thus relatively immobile, it should only be a week or two before they start rough-and-tumbling around, leaving leagues of
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