In a strict sense, the object being descibed has been subject to physical violence. When used as a slang term, the implication is that the said object is undesirable or otherwise crippled.

Strict: The police roughed up a criminal on drugs before arresting him.
Slang: "John's car is roughed up." This would imply that John's car has many undesirable qualities, eg. old, worn, broken, etc
Slang: If your grandmother cooked you a birthday cake and it looked like a lump of sand, you might say that cake is roughed up.

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Roughed off

This is a term commonly heard in the federal prison system. It is similar to being jacked for something but often involves less overt force. {To take an item or service from another through intimidation, coercion, or mild force.}

A. Mike roughed that guy's new sneakers off this afternoon.
B. I just got roughed off for that pack of smokes.
C. He wanted fifty for doing that, but I'm just gonna rough that off him.

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roughed down

worked over as in took a beat down or climbed in bed with a chic strait off the rugby field. The girl gave that dude a rough down.

The chick gave me the rough down.

That chicks not looking for some loving shes looking for somebody to rough down.

You were expecting some powder puff and you got strait up roughed down by woman.

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roughed out

to be sexually turned on from excessive foreplay or titillation.

"Billy Bob, I'm feeling mighty roughed out right now, can we get to fucking puhlease?"

"Oddly, watching this CSPAN coverage leaves me feeling distinctly roughed out."

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WhimZ

Gen Z whimsy

Millennial optimism may be gone, but Gen Z whimsy (WhimZ) is in.

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Frothability

The measure of an emotional and over zealous consumer in an upwardly charging market, also known as a bull market. It's characterized by rising asset prices, increased investor confidence, and favorable growth in the markets, bro.

The frothability was evident as over-zealous consumers eagerly engaged in bidding wars, driving property prices to unsustainable levels reminiscent of previous speculative bubbles.

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Soul digger

A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.

"That guy's a soul digger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."

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pod person

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.

The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.

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