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roughie

1 British  

noun

  1. something unfair, esp a trick

    he put a roughie over

  2. (in horse racing) an outsider that wins

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roughie 2 British  
/ ˈrʌfɪ /

noun

  1. Also called: orange roughy.   ruff.   tommy rough.  a small food fish of the family Arripididae , found in southern and western Australian waters

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Unlike Roughie, I saved my comics.

From Literature

What I read away from school was comic books, as many as Roughie could afford.

From Literature

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.

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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.

From Washington Post