a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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.
n. a fight; a festival of slugging. : They went out in the alley for a real slugfest.
n. a festival of arguing. : The president emerged from the slugfest with control of the company still hers.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
The governor was soon in the sort of slow slugfest his foes excelled at.
It's a mandible-on-mandible slugfest that ends when only one wasp remains.
We will be polite for a while but once the slugfest resumes-and politics is a slugfest-the old invective will slip back in.