From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbrawlbrawl1 /brɔːl $ brɒːl/ noun [countable] FIGHTa noisy quarrel or fight among a group of people, especially in a public place a drunken brawl in the street
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brawl• He got his face cut in a brawl outside a nightclub.• She had lost her eye when she was fifteen, in a brawl with the Gaschuggers outside Welcome, Arizona.• Bars had sprung up on South Railroad Street and around the depot, and robberies and brawls were commonplace.• Together they shoot up, play soccer, get into barroom brawls, mug tourists and steal to support their habits.• a drunken brawl• Daley, like this town, relished a political brawl.• He died as a result of injuries received in a street brawl.• This altered Romeo strikes us as oddly passive after Juliet is exiled for killing his cousin Tybalt in a street brawl.• Meanwhile Leeds and Spurs were fined £150,000 each after the brawl at Elland Road.• No one was injured in the brawl, which police quickly stopped.• Several witnesses said that Slatter started the brawl.brawlbrawl2 verb [intransitive] FIGHTto quarrel or fight in a noisy way, especially in a public place Fans brawled outside the stadium. —brawler noun [countable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
brawl• Her only daughter, the apple of her eye, had been brawling in the street.• The soldiers stayed up all night, brawling their guts out.• Now he just brawls with the bad guys.Origin brawl1 (1300-1400) Perhaps from the sound of fighting 