Dictionary Definition
brawl
Noun
2 a noisy fight in a crowd [syn: free-for-all]
v : to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper
threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street"
[syn: wrangle]
User Contributed Dictionary
Translations
A fight or quarrel
Translations
fight or quarrel
- Finnish: rähistä, räyhätä, nujakoida
- German: raufen
- Icelandic: slást, berjast, fljúgast á
- Italian: lottare, combattere
Extensive Definition
Brawling or Brawl can refer to:
- Brawling (legal definition), a rowdy argument on Church property
- Bench-clearing brawl, a large-scale fight occurring during a game or match
- Brawl (game), a real-time card game
- Brawl (Transformers), a Transformers character
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a video game.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bedlam let loose, ado, affray, agitation, altercate, altercation, argument, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home,
ball, battle, battle royal, be noisy,
bedlam, bicker, bickering, blast, blood feud, bluster, bobbery, bother, box, brannigan, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacophony, caterwaul, caucus, chaos, charivari, chirm, clamor, clangor, clap, clash, clatter, close, collide, colloquium, combat, come to blows, commission, committee, commotion, conclave, concourse, congregation, congress, contend, contention, contest, controversy, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, cut and thrust,
dance, date, diet, differ, din, discord, disorder, dispute, disturbance, dogfight, donnybrook, donnybrook fair,
drunken brawl, duel,
dust, dustup, ebullition, eisteddfod, embroilment, eruption, exchange blows,
exchange of blows, fanaticism, fence, ferment, festivity, fete, feud, fight, fight a duel, fisticuffs, flap, flite, fliting, fomentation, foofaraw, forgathering, forum, fracas, fray, free-for-all, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gathering, get-together, give
and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, hassle, have words, hell broke
loose, helter-skelter, housewarming, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, imbroglio, incident, jangle, join issue, jostle, joust, knock-down-and-drag-out,
levee, logomachy, loud noise,
maffick, make a noise,
make a racket, make an uproar, maul, meet, meeting, melee, mix it up, muss, noise, noise and shouting, open
quarrel, outcry, pandemonium, panel, party, passion, pell-mell, plenum, polemic, pother, prom, quarrel, quorum, racket, rage, raise Cain, raise a clamor,
raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rally, rampage, rassle, rattle, reception, rendezvous, rhubarb, riot, roar, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, run a tilt, scramble, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, seance, session, set to, set-to, sharp
words, shindig, shindy, shivaree, sit-in, sitting, skirmish, slanging match,
snarl, soiree, spar, spat, squabble, stir, storminess, strife, symposium, synod, tempestuousness, thrust
and parry, thunder,
thunderclap,
tiff, tilt, tintamarre, to-do, tourney, trouble, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, turnout, tussle, upheaval, uproar, upset, vendetta, wage war, war, whoop it up, wildness, words, wrangle, wrestle, zeal, zealousness