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roust

  [roust] ,
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–verb (used with object)
to rout, as from a place: to roust someone out of bed.
Origin:
1650–60; perh. alter. of rouse 1
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roust   (roust)   
tr.v.   roust·ed, roust·ing, rousts
To rout, especially out of bed.

[Probably alteration of rouse.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
roust [rɑʊst]

  1. tv.
    [for a police officer] to bother or interfere with someone; to arrest someone. (See also rousted. Underworld.) : The cops rousted the gang without warning.
  2. tv.
    to raid someone's residence; to busta person or place. (Underworld.) : That bar was rousted last week.
  3. n.
    a raid or a bust. : Okay, stand still. This is a roust!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

roust 
1658, probably an alteration of rouse. Roustabout "deck hand, wharf worker" is from 1868, perhaps from roust + about, but another theory connects it to Brit. dial. rousing "rough, shaggy," a word associated perhaps with rooster.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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