Definitions for rogue

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rogue rogue

Spelling: [rohg]

IPA: /roʊg/

Rogue is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in rogue (egoru).

Definitions for rogue

noun

1. a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
2. a playfully mischievous person; scamp:
3. a tramp or vagabond.
4. a rogue elephant or other animal of similar disposition.
5. Biology. a usually inferior organism, especially a plant, varying markedly from the normal.

adjective

1. (of an animal) having an abnormally savage or unpredictable disposition, as a rogue elephant.
2. no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; renegade:

verb (used with object)

1. to cheat.
2. to uproot or destroy (plants, etc., that do not conform to a desired standard).
3. to perform this operation upon:

verb (used without object)

1. to live or act as a rogue.

Origin of rogue

First recorded in 1555-65; apparently short for obsolete roger begging vagabond, orig. cant word

Examples for rogue

Closed courthouses, rogue clerks, and misleading statements from the attorney general as Florida welcomes same-sex marriage.

The duo have five of these rogue installations under their belts, with another coming in early 2015.

There never was a rogue, who had not a salvo to himself for being so.

And all that's in it for me is this—the schoolmaster was a rogue that did not give me that verse in for my money.

History has no shortage of rogue explorers seizing land, hoisting their flags, and building new societies.

It invites dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans serving overseas as bargaining chips.

We were much provoked at the insult of playing the rogue's March.

Where has your conscience been these two months back, you villain and rogue?

There was not a rogue or a rascal inside its whole precincts.

Once he graduated in 2006, Simien took a job as a publicity assistant at rogue, then a division of Focus Features.