tussle

Plural: tussles

Noun

• disorderly fighting
• A physical fight or struggle.
• A conflict, an argument, a disagreement.

Verb

Verb Forms: tussled, tussling, tussles

• To engage in a struggle or fight; to contend.
• fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
• make messy or untidy
• To have a tussle.

Examples

• The two sets of fans were tussling before the game.
• We had a real TUSSLE over the triple-word score, each blocking the other’s moves.

Synonyms

dogfight, hassle, muss, rough-and-tumble, scuffle

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