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brawl noun [ brɔːl ]

• a rough or noisy fight or quarrel.
• "he'd got into a drunken brawl in a bar"
Similar: fight, fist fight, skirmish, scuffle, tussle, fracas, scrimmage, fray, melee, rumpus, altercation, wrangle, clash, free-for-all, scrum, brouhaha, commotion, uproar, fisticuffs, rough and tumble, donnybrook, affray, scrap, dust-up, set-to, shindy, punch-up, bust-up, ruck, bit of argy-bargy, afters, rammy, swedge, square go, roughhouse, brannigan, stoush, broil, bagarre,

brawl verb

• fight or quarrel in a rough or noisy way.
• "he ended up brawling with a lout outside his house"
Similar: fight, skirmish, scuffle, tussle, exchange blows, come to blows, struggle, grapple, wrestle, scrimmage, scrap, have a dust-up, have a set-to, have a punch-up, swedge, roughhouse, stoush, go the knuckle,
Origin: late Middle English: perhaps ultimately imitative and related to bray1.


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