"live rough" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: lives rough [present, singular, third-person], living rough [participle, present], lived rough [participle, past], lived rough [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} live rough (third-person singular simple present lives rough, present participle living rough, simple past and past participle lived rough)
  1. (chiefly UK, idiomatic) To live and sleep outdoors or in a rough or makeshift shelter, not having a proper home or abode. Tags: UK, idiomatic Synonyms: sleep rough Hypernyms: rough it
    Sense id: en-live_rough-en-verb-koOe3yet Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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