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dust-up  noun informalA fight or quarrel: he’d had a dust-up with Vera...- He thinks the current dust-up about electronic voting is a political squabble.
- In a society that takes pride in the mildness of its political debates (with the exception of periodic dust-ups over Quebec sovereignty), immigrant fiction writers are among the country's sharpest social critics.
- Now, if you're interested in getting to the bottom of these sorts of high jinks you want to see dust-ups like this because if things get ugly - and especially if they go into the courts - you know all the details are going to come out.
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