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rough and ready

adj

Definitions

  1. Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use

    Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough.

    • [A] dozen Americans could, at any time, construct a house, the ‘rough and ready’ habits of the people usually teaching them, in a rude way, a good deal of a great many other arts, besides this of the carpenter.
    • There was a rough and ready rule-of-thumb test of truth[…]
    • The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility.

  2. A census-designated place in Nevada County, California, United States.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA