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dog rough en · ADJ

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1. Very rowdy, disorderly, and dangerous.
   • But the area wasn't so bad - Lower Grope, further west, was the rough bit. The place of hooligan shennanigans and vandal scandals. Where louts shout and thugs mug. Dog rough... 2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, →ISBN, page 59:
   • Back in the days when Cork City was dog rough, where to take a night-time stroll was an act of madness comparable to forcing long deadly skewers into your eyeballs, Cork was a jungle back then. 2007, Enda Walsh, The Walworth Farce, page 48:
   • These pubs: dog rough, if you ask me, but there you go. 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 131:
2. Very difficult and unpleasant.
   • The prison breakfast was dog rough. 2010, John Lonergan, The Governor, →ISBN:
   • “Ach, life was dog rough back there, Tom, that it was. 2007, John Malone, Heading Home, →ISBN, page 46:
   • “It was dog rough,” admits one Ahern supporter. A constituency delegate remembers: “The old traditional Fianna Fáil people were getting on. They were outflanked and there was often little or no resistance.” 2012, Shane Coleman, Michael Clifford, Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia, →ISBN:
3. Suffering the effects of stress or excess.
   • “I felt dog rough on Thursday evening,” I say. 2011, Dan Tunstall, Big and Clever, →ISBN:
   • Cath Staincliffe sat down to plan an interview strategy for Sean Broughton the next morning she felt dog rough. Damned if she'd let it show though. 2012, Cath Staincliffe, Dead to Me, →ISBN, page 137:
   • I shake my head, rendered mute by paralysing fear and the unwillingness to admit that I feel dog rough, and would most likely toss my cookies over her nice clean floors if I open my mouth now. 2013, Corri Lee, All My Demons, →ISBN, page 221:

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