battle-royal
battle royal
noun, plural battles royal.
1.
a fight in which more than two combatants are engaged.
2.
a heated argument: After a while the discussion turned into a battle royal.
Origin:
1665–75
1665–75
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| battle royal | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a fight, esp with fists or cudgels, involving more than two combatants; melee |
| 2. | a long violent argument |
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Battle-royal
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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