tussle
English
Etymology
Related to tousle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʌsəl/
- Rhymes: -ʌsəl
- Homophone: tussal
Noun
tussle (plural tussles)
- A physical fight or struggle.
- 1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field, →ISBN, page 32:
- ..., two young men—field hands—got into a tussle with a white man.
- A conflict, an argument, a disagreement.
Translations
fight or struggle
a conflict, an argument, a disagreement
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Verb
tussle (third-person singular simple present tussles, present participle tussling, simple past and past participle tussled)
- To have a tussle.
- The two sets of fans were tussling before the game.
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