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donnybrook
noun
A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
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Most of the 18-minute donnybrook touched off by brickbats, bottles, and bags hurled at police by agitators was caught on film, and the footage was shown on television throughout the country for the rest of the week.
The Christian fleet under Don John of Austria prevailed in a bitterly contested donnybrook; losses to the Turks were placed at 30,000 killed, against 8,000 among the victors.
The NHL faces similar risks to the NFL as a result of head checks of the type more than once seen in the 11 February donnybrook.
On the last day, the scholar Annegret Fauser, in a talk on the French context for the "Rite," threatened to start a new donnybrook by suggesting that the work may not be as inherently Russian as Taruskin's study makes out.
These two college programs consistently rise to the top of every major statistical category, including early-onset Alzheimer's, so expect a real donnybrook.
I recently posted about a donnybrook at a Bedouin wedding, and asked for someone to clarify what a traditional Bedouin wedding does and doesn't prohibit.
Then the meeting of the credentials committee, before the convention itself, turned into a donnybrook.
After one donnybrook, Matthew complained that Willstrop kept blocking him, and intimated that he, Matthew, had won on gumption alone; Willstrop, a bearded, taciturn twenty-nine-year-old giant known for the precision of his strokes, wrote afterward that Matthew, whose nickname is the Wolf, had treated him with "disdain and arrogance".
By a plurality of four to one and counting, not counting those who did not, the Undecideds squared off in a donnybrook with the Don't Knows, broken up by the Have No Opinions Worth Mentioning.
This is going to be a donnybrook".
(A Freudian duel of actresses, Konstantin's mom and girlfriend, is at the center of this emotional donnybrook.
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