I. verb
Synonyms: quarrel , bicker, brabble, caterwaul, row, scrap, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle
II. noun
1.
Synonyms: quarrel , altercation, bickering, dispute, dust, dustup, feud, fight, hassle, squabble
2.
a rough, noisy, and often prolonged hand-to-hand fight usually involving several people
windows and furniture were broken in the barroom brawl
Synonyms: affray, bobbery, broil, dogfight, donnybrook, fight, fracas, fray, free-for-all, knock-down-and-drag-out, maul, melee, mellay, ||muss, rough-and-tumble, row, rowdydow, ruction, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, set-to; compare quarrel
Related Word: fistfight, fisticuffs, slugfest; struggle, tussle; conflict, contention, contest, riot; altercation, embroilment, imbroglio, quarrel, wrangle; commotion, disturbance, eruption, hubbub, pandemonium, ruckus, rumpus, turn-to, ||turnup, upheaval, uproar; incident, ||rumble
Idioms: a coming to blows, exchange of blows