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noun
- 1. a fight or quarrel: informal "he'd had a dust-up with Vera"
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dust-up. noun [ C usually singular ] old-fashioned uk / ˈdʌs.tʌp / us / ˈdʌs.tʌp /. Add to word list. a fight or argument. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Fighting. armed combat. arms.
2 meanings: 1. a quarrel, fight, or argument dust up 2. to attack or assault (someone).... Click for more definitions.
Dust-up definition: a quarrel; argument; row.. See examples of DUST-UP used in a sentence.
dust· up ˈdəst-ˌəp. Synonyms of dustup. : row, fight. Synonyms. battle. clash. combat. conflict. contest. fight. fracas. fray. hassle. scrap. scrimmage. scrum. scuffle. skirmish. struggle. tussle. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of dustup in a Sentence.
A dustup is an argument or scuffle. A controversial veto by the President might cause a political dustup. Dustup was coined during the late 19th century, from the idea that fighting in the streets would raise some dust — an earlier phrase was kick up a dust, or "cause an uproar."
noun (Informal) fight, conflict, argument, set-to (informal), encounter, brush, scrap (informal), quarrel, skirmish, tussle, punch-up (Brit. informal), fracas, shindig (informal) He had a dust-up with the referee.
Definition of dust-up noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English dust-up /ˈdʌst-ʌp/ noun [countable] British English informal a fight Examples from the Corpus dust-up • There'd be the most awful dust-up. • He had a premarital dust-up with the woman who is now his wife, and the networks showed the video.
A commotion, quarrel, or fight. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. (informal, by extension) An argument or dispute. Wiktionary. Alternative spelling of dustup. Wiktionary. verb. To dust, to clean by dusting.
Define dustup. dustup synonyms, dustup pronunciation, dustup translation, English dictionary definition of dustup. n. Slang A row; a dispute. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
