I. noun
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a tussle for control of the party
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The two women got into a violent tussle in which Joan was thrown to the ground.
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After a boardroom tussle at Paramount, its studio chief, Frank Mancuso, quit.
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Alton Bass Reserves winning a midfield tussle .
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Bad blood remained from the previous weeks tussle and national expectation weighed heavily on everyone's shoulders.
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More agile, and much stronger than I, Kip got the bottle away from me after the briefest tussle .
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Oxford will have a tussle on their hands at the Manor.
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The tussles in the coming months between the White House and the Republican Congress will be crucial.
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The first tussles of the 1848 revolution took place here when it was the military headquarters.
II. verb
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Shea tussled with the doorman when he was not allowed in the club.
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Her dolls or action figures may always kiss and hug, but never fight or tussle with each other, for example.
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I tussled with the fish for a bit, a strong and lively fellow, and persuaded it to the boat.
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Now he was, spasmodically, totting up some figures - in the intervals between tussling with the Telegraph crossword clues.
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One day, a woman turned up who must have seemed the very embodiment of that nature he was tussling with daily.
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Raider and hunter tussled, strength against strength, the one pulling up, the other down.
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The yeoman's wife would tussle for a good place to set down her stool.
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There were kids tussling on rafts of planks and plastic drums; couples in rowing boats; powerboats limping, out of charge.
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They were tussling, in their cute little MBA-zombie way, over who would get which cool movie poster.