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Definition of rough around the edges
rough around the edges
adjective
- having not mastered a subject.
The new employee is still a little rough around the edges.
You're still a bit rough around the edges but with constant practice, you will become an expert programmer.
Last edited on Jun 12 2014. Submitted by Gordon from University Park, USA on Feb 12 2003.
- not perfect.
I finished it, but it's still a little rough around the edges.
Our product is still rough around the edges, so it's too early to think about advertising it.
Last edited on Jun 15 2014. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 21 2012.
- lacking certain social graces or manners.
Last edited on Jun 09 2014. Submitted by Anonymous on Jun 08 2014.
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Other terms relating to 'around': | |
| Definitions include: the bathroom. | |
| Definitions include: one's home neighborhood. | |
| Definitions include: to waste time. | |
| Definitions include: to delay in getting to the point. | |
| Definitions include: experienced. | |
| Definitions include: to be lazy. | |
| Definitions include: to act like a clown; to joke. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "cash rules everything around me". | |
| Definitions include: to cruise (drive) around. | |
| Definitions include: to be joking. | |
| Definitions include: to spend time on a non-productive activity; "waste time". | |
| Definitions include: to waste time, to mess around. | |
| Definitions include: to intentionally show off an item. | |
| Definitions include: to engage in intimate sexual activities; "mess around". | |
| Definitions include: to cheat on one's significant other. | |
Other terms relating to 'edge': | |
| Definitions include: at the forefront. | |
| Definitions include: at the forefront. | |
| Definitions include: The pinnacle of very cool, excellent, outstanding, or awesome. | |
| Definitions include: drunk. | |
| Definitions include: The baby hair on the forehead | |
| Definitions include: to go crazy. | |
| Definitions include: to decline in a particular skill. | |
| Definitions include: nervous. | |
| Definitions include: not consuming alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana and other illegal drugs; and also not engaging in premarital sex. | |
Other terms relating to 'rough': | |
| Definitions include: to go through a rough patch, i.e. a difficult time. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "rough as fuck", i.e. unattractive. | |
| Definitions include: to steal, pocket, keep. | |
| Definitions include: tough. | |
| Definitions include: to play roughly. | |
| Definitions include: to go without comforts, e.g. running water. | |
| Definitions include: an oil well worker. | |
| Definitions include: a difficult time. | |
| Definitions include: rough male homosexual sex. | |
| Definitions include: to beat up. | |
| Definitions include: a term for male masturbation. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: inclusive. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
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