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the feathers fly
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stoush
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stand up and be counted
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arm
build up
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ruck
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interpose
cross swords
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warpath
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verb
- To have a fight or argument start.
- To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.
- To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- To suddenly become more active.
- To start; to launch.
- To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally.
- To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- To die or quit permanently.
verb
- To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
- To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
- To believe (something is reasonable) and argue (for it); to advocate.
- To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
- contend with: To try to cope with a difficulty or problem.
verb
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
noun
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- The beginning.
- A field of activity.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
adj
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
verb
- To discuss or debate.
- To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- To say, utter, also insinuate.
- To take root and begin to grow.
- To make or declare irrelevant.
- To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
- To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
noun
- A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
- A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
- A mutual follower on a social media platform.
- Vagina.
- A moot court.
- A ring for gauging wooden pins.
- The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
- An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
- A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
- A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
- Talk.
adj
verb
- To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- To mix together or intertwine.
- To catch and hold.
- To become mixed together or intertwined.
noun
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- A tangled twisted mass.
- A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
- A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
- A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
noun
- Lively contention or debate, skirmish.
- A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.
- A loud, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.
- A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
- Any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.
- Small cut and polished gemstones sold in lots.
verb
adj
verb
- To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
- To execute someone extrajudicially.
- To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
- To confront (someone or something) face to face.
noun
- A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between people not in a sexual relationship, that usually does not lead to the establishment of a relationship, and may or may not happen again. A sexual encounter could be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is a sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
- A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
- A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
- A match between two opposing sides.
- An extrajudicial killing or execution.
verb
- To engage in confrontation.
- To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- To deal with.
- To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
- To come up against; to encounter.
- To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with
- To bring someone face to face with something.
noun
- Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
- A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
- An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
- A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
- The combined cheers of a crowd.
verb
verb
- To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
- To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
noun
- An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
- A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
- Discussion of opposing views.
- An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
verb
- To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- To deprive of.
- To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
- To masturbate.
- To waste away.
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- To cut off, remove, take away.
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
noun
noun
- A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.
- A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- A chat room.
- An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- Informal conversation.
- The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
- Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
verb
verb
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
noun
verb
- To debate, to discuss.
- To seek the support of voters or a constituency in a forthcoming election or poll; to campaign.
- To thoroughly examine or investigate (something) physically or by discussion; to debate, to gather opinion, to scrutinize.
- To seek the support of (voters or a constituency) in a forthcoming election or poll through personal solicitation or public addresses.
- To scrutinize (the ballot in an election or the votes cast) and reject irregular votes; also, to challenge or dispute (an election result).
- To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc. from (people or a place)
- To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc.; to conduct a survey.
noun
- A seeking or solicitation, or determination, of support or favourable votes in a forthcoming election or poll.
- A scrutiny of the votes cast in an election to reject irregular votes; also, a tally, audit, and certification of votes.
- A seeking or solicitation of donations, information, opinions, support, etc.
verb
- To quarrel or argue briefly.
- To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
- To spawn. Used of shellfish as above.
- To strike with a spattering sound.
noun
- A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
- A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
- A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
- A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
- A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
- An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.
- A light blow with something flat.
- The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
verb
- To fight, brawl, or argue.
- To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
noun
- A blue uniform. See blues.
- One of the three color charges for quarks.
- A bluefish.
- A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- An umpire, in reference to the typical dark blue color of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- Blue clothing.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- A member of law enforcement.
- A type of firecracker.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
- The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and purple in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- An argument or brawl.
adj
- Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- Having a color charge of blue.
- Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- Having blue as its color.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red blood cells.
- Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
verb
- To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
- To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
- To feed or nourish (someone or something).
- To join in battle; to contend in fight
noun
- A contest, a struggle.
- A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
- battle buddy
adj
verb
- argue or speak in defense of
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- support materially or financially
- be behind; approve of
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- adopt as a belief
- support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
- play a subordinate role to (another performer)
- be a regular customer or client of
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
noun
- the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
- aiding the cause or policy or interests of
- something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- documentary validation
- the financial means whereby one lives
- supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation
- the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- any device that bears the weight of another thing
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
- the part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm
verb
- To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
- To constitute the components of a whole.
- To draw near to, approach to.
- To apply cosmetics.
- To compensate (for).
- To make peace, to settle a dispute.
- To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
- To invent, to imagine, to concoct
- To constitute, to compose.
- To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
- To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
- To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
- To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
- To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
- To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
noun
- An argument or fight.
- A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
- Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
- The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
- A small heifer.
- The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
- A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
- A rucksack; a large backpack.
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
verb
verb
- To call something into question or dispute.
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- To dare (someone).
- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- To be difficult or challenging for.
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
- To dispute (something).
noun
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- A bid to overcome something.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
verb
- To attempt to fight, compete with, or engage with.
- To assume or take responsibility for.
- To (attempt to) dribble round (an opposition player).
- To catch on, do well; to become popular.
- To obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
- To begin to have or exhibit.
- To acquire, bring in, or introduce.
- To grieve or be concerned (about something or someone).
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