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don⋅ny⋅brook
[don-ee-broo
k] 
–noun (often initial capital letter)
) | an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all. |
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| don·ny·brook (dŏn'ē-brŏŏk') n. An uproar; a free-for-all. See Synonyms at brawl. [After Donnybrook fair, held annually in Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, and noted for its brawls.] |
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donnybrook
1852, from Donnybrook Fair, proverbial for carousing and brawling, held in County Dublin until 1855.
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