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roughie

1

noun

  1. something unfair, esp a trick

    he put a roughie over

  2. (in horse racing) an outsider that wins
“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


roughie

2

/ ˈrʌfɪ /

noun

  1. a small food fish of the family Arripididae , found in southern and western Australian waters Also calledorange roughyrufftommy rough
“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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Example Sentences

She didn’t know me very well, and obviously she did not know about my next-door neighbor, Ralph “Roughie” Williams.

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

Roughie had more comic books than anyone else in the whole world.

Unlike Roughie, I saved my comics.

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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