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lives rough

lives rough is the third-person singular simple present indicative of live rough.

Meaning of live rough

Verb

live rough (third-person singular simple present lives rough, present participle living rough, simple past and past participle lived rough)

  1. (UK, idiomatic) To live and sleep outdoors or in a rough or makeshift shelter, not having a proper home or abode.
    Synonyms:
    sleep rough

Questions about lives rough

What is lives rough the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lives rough is the third-person singular simple present indicative of live rough.

Words near lives rough in the dictionary

  1. lives paycheque to paycheque
  2. lives rent free in someone's head
  3. lives rent free in someone's mind
  4. lives rent-free in someone's head
  5. lives rent-free in someone's mind
  6. lives rough
  7. lives tally
  8. lives the dream
  9. lives through
  10. lives to fight another day
  11. lives to regret

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lives rough (page history and authors); live rough (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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