Definition of "roughs" [roughs]

• Plural form of rough. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rough. (verb)

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• "Yet we would be "roughs" -- and she and her crew must be "treated with the deference due the gentler sex.""
• "Of course, the line quality of the roughs is the "loose" holy grail of drawing, and when we tried to put down the finishing touches as the R train barreled into Prince Street, the drawings became not only "tight," but often wrong."
• "Prisoners could do very much as they liked in those days, and the consequence was that the "roughs," or the worst characters, gave the "ton" to the whole prison."