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Tug-of-war

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  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of tug of war. alt-of, alternative

    "2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text Heads fling blood and mucus into the air; viscera drip from vulture bills; two birds play tug-of-war with a ten-foot rope of intestine coated in dirt and feces."

  2. 2
    any hard struggle between equally matched groups wordnet
  3. 3
    a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses wordnet

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