- (of an animal) living apart from the main group, and possibly dangerous
- behaving in a different way from other similar people or things, often causing damage
- a rogue gene
- a rogue police officer
Extra Examples- Rogue cells may survive in the body to form a tumour.
- The bus shelter was demolished by a rogue driver.
- There is a need to protect patients from rogue doctors.
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Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting an idle vagrant): probably from Latin rogare ‘beg, ask’, and related to obsolete slang roger ‘vagrant beggar’ (many such cant terms were introduced towards the middle of the 16th cent.).
Idioms
See rogue in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo rogue
- (informal) to suddenly start doing something unexpected, especially something dangerous, wrong or against the rules
- Denzel Washington plays a CIA agent gone rogue.
- One of his employees went rogue and started stealing money from the company.
- My phone has gone rogue on me—it keeps switching itself off.
- My luggage went rogue (= got lost) at the airport and didn't make it onto the plane.
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