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brawl
[ brawl ]
noun
- an angry, rough, noisy fight, especially one engaged in under the influence of alcohol:
The wild, free-for-all western brawl in the saloon lasts two full minutes and constitutes the movie’s opening scene.
- Slang. a large, noisy party.
- Obsolete. a bubbling or roaring noise; a clamor.
brawl
1/ brɔːl /
noun
- a loud disagreement or fight
- slang.an uproarious party
verb
- to quarrel or fight noisily; squabble
- (esp of water) to flow noisily
brawl
2/ brɔːl /
noun
- a dance: the English version of the branle
Derived Forms
- ˈbrawling, nounadjective
- ˈbrawler, noun
Other Words From
- brawl·er noun
- brawl·y adjective
- out·brawl verb (used with object)
- un·brawl·ing adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of brawl1
Word History and Origins
Origin of brawl1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Good news: so is this grainy TMZ footage of a Bieber/Bloom Ibiza brawl.
How could it be that this word, and not “what” or “why,” has caused a bare-knuckle brawl at such a stratospheric social level?
Most recently, Charles Barkley appeared in a cartoon brawl with Godzilla.
If anyone could have stopped the Everest brawl of April 27, 2013, it was Arnot.
How excited were those three guys to FINALLY have a legitimate reason to bar brawl?
A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
When about twenty years of age, in a drunken brawl he shot and killed one of his best friends.
You see, he had called at the bank on the morning of the night of the brawl, and drew what little money he had.
Gordon was killed the night before sailing—(Mr. Carr had well described it as a drunken brawl)—killed accidentally.
Brewing in the senior day-room was a mere vulgar brawl, lacking all the refining influences of the study.
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