What is "rousting"

Usage examples of "rousting".

Warrants was going after the real bad guys and not rousting winos and wienie waggers in front of the Midnight Mission.

Instead, she chose to stay on rousting detail, dragging bums out of holes.

Hayward, whose knowledge of the underground homeless was becoming an ever more valu­able resource, had led a number of special rousting details.

And the only thing that inflamed them more than the sight of one policeman was the sight of many police­men, bent on rousting and eviction.

Even though they were already deeper than ordinary rousting parties ever went, the atmosphere of a field trip had not yet dissipated, and nobody was complaining.

Already spread too thin by the massive rousting operation, much of the force was late on the scene of the riot.

And here's the kicker: we called Loew to tell him the Mex man was horseshit, but a Rurale buddy of ours says that Vogel and Koenig are still rousting spies.

We were cruising the alley in back of the Jesus Saves Mission when I spotted him--solo rousting a pair of piss bums scrounging in a trash can.

Staring at the bar kept me from thinking, the loud jazz kept my ears perked for the sound of voices above it, the booze kept me from rousting the stocky man on a half dozen trumped-up charges.

I thought about querying the bus company, a general rousting of drivers on that route--then realized it was too cold, that any driver who remembered picking up Betty would have come forward during all the '47 publicity.

As for the detective sergeants, their rousting of the Cubans had produced nothing except a lot of bad feeling, and they came away from the encounter convinced that nobody in the Cuban Revolutionary Party had the brains or the or­ganizing skill to pull off anything like the kidnapping of Ana Linares.

Uniformed cops were rousting winos in Griffith Park and getting nowhere.

Better for his purposes if they continued to bumble about giving parking tickets and rousting the local youth.