Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A riotous disturbance; a noisy quarrel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vexation or annoyance; also, a disturbance; a row or rumpus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. & Scot. An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A noisy
quarrel orfight .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of making a noisy disturbance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Slide 42: International The school has an international Bachelor - degree study group where the language of inst - Business School ruction is English.
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All are waiting for some market ruction hairy enough that the central bank will cast aside every political and legal restraint in order to save the euro.
Why Europe Dithers Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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They's a man up the Little Peco that's had a ruction with a panther, an 'the way he's clawed is something scand'lous.
THE END OF THE STORY 2010
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And doing my work well, the innate justice of the men, assisted by their wholesome dislike for a clawing and rending wild-cat ruction, soon led them to give over their hectoring.
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Comforting thought to take into the new decade, eh? on January 1, 2010 at 12: 29 pm ex-ruction not so long back a guy (travelling with caravans type) had the all the custody cell keys placed in his vast special pocket with a bit of spare cash.
What A Load Of Pants! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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And doing my work well, the innate justice of the men, assisted by their wholesome dislike for a clawing and rending wild-cat ruction, soon led them to give over their hectoring.
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It would be better to arrive in California without a rag to our backs than to leave our bones here; and leave them we will if we start a ruction.
Chapter 12 2010
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I thought I would get this out to the big, wide policing world! on January 12, 2010 at 8: 32 pm ex-ruction
Officer Down (Northern Ireland) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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What do I win? on March 24, 2009 at 10: 33 am | Reply ex-ruction
Tony McNulty ’second home’ shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Keep up the good work! on January 11, 2010 at 6: 20 pm ex-ruction
Officer Down (Northern Ireland) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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