Definition of roughshod

• (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalins roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
• unjustly domineering; "incensed at the governments heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"