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a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
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How to use ruction in a sentence
That old man never would get it off him without a big ruction, and if he did, Dan would be right after him bigger'n a wolf.
The Happy Family | Bertha Muzzy BowerFer me, I guess as we're well out of a ruction that looked at one time likely to get too hot fer anything.
The Hero of Panama | F. S. BreretonA ruction there could be heard way up and down the line, and would set people running.
The Hero of Panama | F. S. BreretonThere'll be a ruction in this neighbourhood before many minutes.'
Under the Chinese Dragon | F. S. BreretonBut my friends know where I am an' they'll come down here an' raise a ruction if I don't show up.
Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up | Clarence Edward Mulford
British Dictionary definitions for ruction
/ (ˈrʌkʃən) /
an uproar; noisy or quarrelsome disturbance
(plural) a violent and unpleasant row; trouble: there'll be ructions when she finds out
Origin of ruction
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