BRAWL


Meaning of BRAWL in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

drunken

They are extremely handsome and sensual, and glory in a drunken brawl .

■ NOUN

street

He died as a result of injuries received in a street brawl .

This altered Romeo strikes us as oddly passive after Juliet is exiled for killing his cousin Tybalt in a street brawl .

Hayden helped provoke the late Richard J.. Daley into a temper tantrum that turned the 1968 convention into a street brawl .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

drunken party/orgy/brawl etc

Robyn had two casual heterosexual encounters at this time, both one-night stands after rather drunken parties, both unsatisfactory.

They are extremely handsome and sensual, and glory in a drunken brawl.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a drunken brawl

He got his face cut in a brawl outside a nightclub.

No one was injured in the brawl , which police quickly stopped.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Bars had sprung up on South Railroad Street and around the depot, and robberies and brawls were commonplace.

Daley, like this town, relished a political brawl .

He died as a result of injuries received in a street brawl .

Meanwhile Leeds and Spurs were fined £150,000 each after the brawl at Elland Road.

Several witnesses said that Slatter started the brawl .

She had lost her eye when she was fifteen, in a brawl with the Gaschuggers outside Welcome, Arizona.

This altered Romeo strikes us as oddly passive after Juliet is exiled for killing his cousin Tybalt in a street brawl .

Together they shoot up, play soccer, get into barroom brawls, mug tourists and steal to support their habits.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Her only daughter, the apple of her eye, had been brawling in the street.

Now he just brawls with the bad guys.

The soldiers stayed up all night, brawling their guts out.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.