tear-up

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English

Noun

tear-up (plural tear-ups)

  1. (UK, slang) A fight; a scrap.
    • 2013, Lenny McLean, The Guv'nor:
      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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