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roust

[roust]
verb (used with object)
to rout, as from a place: to roust someone out of bed.

Origin:
1650–60; perhaps alteration of rouse1
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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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.
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roust definition

[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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