noun
a quarrel; argument; row.
Origin:
1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase dust up
1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase dust up
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Dustup
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| 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. |
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