SCUFFLE


Meaning of SCUFFLE in English

I. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A brief scuffle broke out between fans after the game.

Rioters threw stones at the police and a few scuffles broke out.

There was a brief scuffle as the crowd left the football ground.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A bottle crashed to the floor; there was a scuffle .

Junkin got into a scuffle with an unidentified Jets player near the end of a kickoff return.

The details remain unclear, but the scuffle is probably best described as potentially lucrative for Mr Tyler.

There's a scuffle taking place on the adjacent platform: you hear the yells and the fists.

There is a sudden scuffle as one of the dancers collapses, delirious on to the stone floor.

There was a scuffle and he stood up, pushed past brother and friends, and dashed from the courtroom.

There was a brief scuffle at the entrance between photographers and a male colleague with the Marquess.

White hecklers appeared and a scuffle broke out.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After a lot of scuffling and grunting, the soldiers pushed Hilda out.

By the doors, where the couple had been, three teenage boys were scuffling and messing around.

Empty dories scuffled around the raft with their oars crossed.

I was all scuffled and pink.

Mark Garcia, 41, died of apparent heart failure the day after he scuffled with officers.

Prowling, scuffling, moving around out there somewhere ... There was another crash of thunder.

The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.

Then there was another thud, followed by the noise of scuffling shoes on the bare wood floor.

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