roughie
1 Britishnoun
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something unfair, esp a trick
he put a roughie over
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(in horse racing) an outsider that wins
noun
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Unlike Roughie, I saved my comics.
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What I read away from school was comic books, as many as Roughie could afford.
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She didn’t know me very well, and obviously she did not know about my next-door neighbor, Ralph “Roughie” Williams.
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Roughie had more comic books than anyone else in the whole world.
From Literature
After Jim Sanders’ ”find” on his property near Nevada City in California’s Gold Country made news last year, Australian prospector Murray Cox compared pictures of Sanders’ ”Washington Nugget” with “The Orange Roughie” he unearthed near Melbourne in 1987, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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