| Definitions | | rough and tumble |
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noun
- (alternative spelling of, rough-and-tumble)
- 1947, Leslie Wood, NikolaÄ Nikolaevich Evreinov, Harry Alan Towers, Leslie Scott Mitchell, The March of the Movies, page 174
- : Everyone fought in these rough and tumbles for the mastery of what was to become one of the world's largest industries.
verb (rough and tumbles, rough and tumbling, rough and tumbled)
- engage in rough-and-tumble actity
- 1932, James T. Farrell , Young Lonigan
- : They clinched again, tumbled onto the grass, rough and tumbled, with first one and then the other on top, socking away.
- 2000, Herb Goldberg, The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege, page 63
- : Daddy holds, hugs, kisses, and caresses his young daughter but he rough and tumbles, throws around, and mock fights with his little son.
adjective
- (alternative spelling of, rough-and-tumble)
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