scufflenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈskʌf.əl/us/ˈskʌf.əl/a short and sudden fight, especially one involving a small number of people:
Two police officers were injured in scuffles with demonstrators at Sunday's protest.
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- action stations
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fisticuffs
- fray
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
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scuffle
verb [ I ] ukus
The youths scuffled with the policeman, then escaped down the alley.