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roust
verb- to harass someone, especially when done deliberately by the police or other authorities UK
- I couldn’t remember being rousted recently, and I didn’t like it one bit. — James Patterson, Kiss the Girls, p. 334, 1995
- to upbraid someone AUSTRALIA, 1916
- The boss was a “birk” (pain in the neck) who kept “rousting” (bawling out) the tentmen[.] — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 31, 1953
- to subject to a thorough, often messy, search US
- This was done because the day before, I had been rousted by pigs who pretended they were searching my cell and beaten up in the process. — Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast, p. 36, 1981
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