n.
Function: noun
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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 FF1C; windows and furniture were broken in the barroom brawl FF1E;
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 Words: 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