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vb. (present participle of rough English)
Wikipedia
Roughing is an offense and penalty in ice hockey when two players are in a minor altercation. The incident would have to be minor for either player to be categorized as such an offense such as:
- A player striking another opponent
- A goalie using their equipment to punch an opponent
In broader sports terminology it is also used in penalty calls given in American, or gridiron football, although the calls usually include the position against which the infraction was committed.
- Roughing the passer, when the quarterback is hit and the hit is deemed to be intentional and not the result of incidental or unavoidable contact.
- Roughing the kicker, when a kicker is intentionally hit well after the ball has been kicked away.
Usage examples of "roughing".
Yet Charles Bedaux had no more intention of roughing it than an Indian rajah setting out on a tiger hunt.
On the rings of a rack made of a nailed leather strap were hung awls, mallets, hammers, irons to cut the vellum, and roughing chisels of bogwood, which were used to smooth the threads as fast as they were employed.
Dear Lord, she hated roughing itt Ten minutes later, as she made her way back to the camp, a sudden noise in the underbrush stopped her dead in her tracks.
An oil baron roughing up a callgirl in a prestige hotel, for instance, or the repeated coshing of a pretty bank teller.
Out walking one day, he became incensed when he observed a policenmn roughing up a Mexican-American whom Baca happened to know.
Had Mark Twain written nothing but Huckleberry Finn, or Tom Sawyer, or Roughing It, he would have earned an abiding place in human affection and left a permanent record of one passing phase of American life.
Now, with hammer and chisel in hand, he found this roughing out unpleasing, impatient for that first moment when a flicker of a buried image shone through, when the block became a source of life that communicated with him.
He was proud of his professionalism in roughing in Old McAllister's privy parts.
I'd like to know what he'll say when he learns his men have come barging in here this way, making a disturbance, disruping my business, roughing up my customers!
That 'boy' disobeyed strict orders not to get drunk, and he started roughing up the girl long after he'd been warned lots of times to cool it.
We've had trouble with them before, roughing up a couple of the tours.
People roughing up folks as works for us, callin' em Fuzzy-lovers.
Jules, my companion of the shaved head, was called in for the pleasurable sport of roughing up the subject and dumping him--stripped of his uniform--while the count and I returned gratefully to the unfinished carafe.
The fact that I needed the vehicle urgently was not, in Cicerius's considered legal opinion, a valid defence for roughing up a fellow citizen.
How would it look if we started roughing up an ex-ambassador's wife?