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RUN-IN

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• RUN-IN (noun)
The noun RUN-IN has 1 sense:

1. an angry dispute

Familiarity information: RUN-IN used as a noun is very rare.

• RUN-IN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An angry dispute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dustup; quarrel; run-in; wrangle; row; words

Context examples:

they had a quarrel / they had words

Hypernyms ("run-in" is a kind of...):

conflict; difference; difference of opinion; dispute (a disagreement or argument about something important)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "run-in"):

affray; altercation; fracas (noisy quarrel)

bicker; bickering; fuss; pettifoggery; spat; squabble; tiff (a quarrel about petty points)

bust-up (a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship))

"You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink."
(English proverb)
"A spared body only goes twenty-four hours further that another"
(Breton proverb)
"All sunshine makes a desert."
(Arabic proverb)
"Life is just as long as the time it takes for someone to pass by a window."
(Corsican proverb)

Useful links:
Meaning of bicker
fuss definition
Definition of pettifoggery
spat definition
Pronunciation of tiff

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