roost
[verb]
Synonyms: alight, land, light, perch, set down, settle, sit down, touch down, harbor, billet, board, domicile, house, hut, lodge, put up, quarter, room

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I. roost¹ /ruːst/ noun [countable]
[Language: Old English; Origin: hrost]
a place where birds rest and sleep
⇒ rule the roost at rule²(4)

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II. roost² verb [intransitive]

1. if a bird roosts, it rests or sleeps somewhere

2. sb’s chickens come home to roost (also something comes home to roost) used to say that someone’s past mistakes are causing problems for them now:
After years of overspending, the chickens have come home to roost.

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roost
ru:st
See: chickens come home to roost , rule the roost

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