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  • verb Present participle of roust.

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Examples

  • From the Key West Citizen: KEY WEST -- The city plans to begin rousting sleeping homeless people from Mallory Square and taking their fingerprints and pictures before handing them a 24-hour warning to leave the waterfront park.

    December 2003 2003

  • I hope no one has gotten the impression that I'm interested in defending the idea of rousting tent cities.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

  • It's a pretty poor stick of a white man that can't find something better than 'rousting' on a steamboat. "

    The Price Francis Lynde 1893

  • To be young again and rousting about with a beauty like … He paused.

    On The Sly Ron Earl Phillips 2011

  • Speaking of which and as you're probably aware, city governments all over the country have now deployed against us their black-booted militia, rousting us, in the middle of the night, from the public spaces we have been both literally and figuratively occupying.

    John Shore: An Open Letter From the Heart of OWS: "We ARE the Message" John Shore 2011

  • Speaking of which and as you're probably aware, city governments all over the country have now deployed against us their black-booted militia, rousting us, in the middle of the night, from the public spaces we have been both literally and figuratively occupying.

    John Shore: An Open Letter From the Heart of OWS: "We ARE the Message" John Shore 2011

  • Even Juan Agudelo, the United States' 18-year-old goal scorer, was not spared a rousting when Howard did not like his positioning on a free kick.

    Howard Vs. Messi Was a Soccer Showdown for the Ages Joshua Robinson 2011

  • Speaking of which and as you're probably aware, city governments all over the country have now deployed against us their black-booted militia, rousting us, in the middle of the night, from the public spaces we have been both literally and figuratively occupying.

    John Shore: An Open Letter From the Heart of OWS: "We ARE the Message" John Shore 2011

  • Speaking of which and as you're probably aware, city governments all over the country have now deployed against us their black-booted militia, rousting us, in the middle of the night, from the public spaces we have been both literally and figuratively occupying.

    John Shore: An Open Letter From the Heart of OWS: "We ARE the Message" John Shore 2011

  • The law, which authorizes county police to stop anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant, resulted in the rousting of dark-skinned people in cars, Gomez said.

    Virginia's immigration Know-Nothings 2010

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