Tear-up

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fight; a scrap. UK, slang

    "We'd give him a bit of verbal, out would come the bouncers, chucking their weight about, and it would all end in a right tear-up."

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"We'd give him a bit of verbal, out would come the bouncers, chucking their weight about, and it would all end in a right tear-up."

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