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Licentious types getting wild tribe into rows (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

libertines

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'licentious types' is the definition.
'libertines' can be an answer for 'types' (I have seen 'Dissolute types' mean 'libertines' so perhaps 'types' could also mean 'libertines'). I am unsure of the 'licentious' bit.

'wild tribe into rows' is the wordplay.
'wild' is an anagram indicator.
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rows' becomes 'lines' (row can mean a line of things).
'tribe' anagrammed gives 'berti'.
'berti' placed inside 'lines' is 'LIBERTINES'.

'getting' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for libertines that I've seen is " Dissolute types".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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