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rogue

  [rohg] noun, verb, rogued, ro⋅guing, adjective
–noun
1. a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
2. a playfully mischievous person; scamp: The youngest boys are little rogues.
3. a tramp or vagabond.
4. a rogue elephant or other animal of similar disposition.
5. Biology. a usually inferior organism, esp. a plant, varying markedly from the normal.
–verb (used without object)
6. to live or act as a rogue.
–verb (used with object)
7. to cheat.
8. to uproot or destroy (plants, etc., that do not conform to a desired standard).
9. to perform this operation upon: to rogue a field.
–adjective
10. (of an animal) having an abnormally savage or unpredictable disposition, as a rogue elephant.
11. no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; deviating, renegade: a rogue cop; a rogue union local.
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Origin:
1555–65; appar. short for obs. roger begging vagabond, orig. cant word

Synonyms:
1. villain, trickster, swindler, cheat, mountebank, quack. See knave.
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rogue   (rōg)   
n.  

  1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.

  2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.

  3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.

  4. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.

  5. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.

adj.  

  1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.

  2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.

  3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: "How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?" (Saul Hansell).

v.   rogued, rogu·ing, rogues

v.   tr.

  1. To defraud.

  2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.

v.   intr.
To remove diseased or abnormal plants.

[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

rogue 
1561, "idle vagrant," perhaps a shortened form of roger (with a hard -g-), thieves' slang for a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge, perhaps from L. rogare "to ask." Another theory traces it to Celtic (cf. Bret. rog "haughty"); OED says, "There is no evidence of connexion with F. rogue 'arrogant.' " Rogue's gallery "police collection of mug shots" is attested from 1859.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

rogue games
[Unix] A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD "curses(3)" screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to support "rogue(6)" and has since become one of Unix's most important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack, Omega, Larn, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games all took off from the inspiration provided by "rogue(6)". See also nethack.
[The Jargon File]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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