Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BRAWL

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Definitions of BRAWL

1. A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.
2. (intransitive) To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
3. (intransitive) To create a disturbance; to complain loudly.
4. (intransitive) Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to make a loud, confused noise.
5. (transitive) To pour abuse on; to scold.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake.
7. (dance, obsolete) A type of dance move or step.
8. (dance, music, historical) Alternative form of branle ("dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance").

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Examples of Using BRAWL in a Sentence

• The Great Sandbar Duel, featuring Jim Bowie, was a formal one-on-one duel that erupted into a violent brawl involving multiple combatants on September 19, 1827.
• But Wynalda and Calloway were soon at each other's throats again, eventually leading to a locker room brawl between Wynalda and John Doyle.
• That night, when hustler Richard, with whom Toddy is romantically involved, comes to Chez Lui as part of a straight foursome, Toddy incites a brawl resulting in damages and the police locking up whomever they can get their hands on.
• December 21 – "Kde domov můj" (Where My Home Is), with music by František Škroup and words by Josef Kajetán Tyl, which will become the national anthem of the Czech Republic, originates as a part of the incidental music to the comedy Fidlovačka aneb Žádný hněv a žádná rvačka (Fidlovačka, or No Anger and No Brawl), first performed by Karel Strakatý at the Estates Theatre in Prague, at this time subject to the Habsburg monarchy.
• Ebens and Nitz assailed Chin following a brawl that took place at a strip club in Highland Park, Michigan, where Chin had been celebrating his bachelor party with friends in advance of his upcoming wedding.
• The 1977 season saw season-long conflict between Martin and Steinbrenner, as well as between the manager and Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson, including a near brawl between the two in the dugout on national television; but the season culminated in Martin's only world championship as a manager.
• McMahon stopped performing as a referee and became a backstage official at WrestleMania VIII on April 5, 1992 in an attempt to break up a storyline brawl between Randy Savage and Ric Flair.
• Henry is a somewhat irresponsible rockabilly singer-guitarist who has recently been released from prison after serving time for stabbing a man during a drunken brawl, and wasn't thinking of Georgette at all.
• Bell went to punch him but Sele dodged it before Bell got clotheslined by Mo Vaughn and sparking a benches-clearing brawl.
• In November 1993, McDowell and Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder were involved in a barroom brawl in New Orleans, Louisiana that resulted in Vedder being arrested for public drunkenness and disturbing the peace.
• The brawl also involved Knicks head coach Jeff Van Gundy, who was seen dangling on Mourning's leg in an attempt to break up the fight.
• A constitutional crisis developed when, three days after the election, the NFP splintered in a leadership brawl, and the Governor General of Fiji, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, asked the Mara government to remain in power in a caretaker capacity.
• Also among the African-Americans who came with the gold rush was Isaac "Ikey" Dixon, whose brawl in his Yale barbershop and subsequent safe-custody arrest triggered off the events known as McGowan's War, and who soon after became a noted and popular columnist for the Barkerville newspaper The Cariboo Sentinel.
• The defending champions looked forward to defending their title in the 2004–05 season, but the season would take an unexpected turn near the end of a November 19 game against the Indiana Pacers, in which Wallace and Ron Artest sparred with each other before the infamous brawl named "The Malice at the Palace" involving both players and spectators took place.
• Following the brawl, Piersall briefly scuffled with teammate Mickey McDermott in the Red Sox clubhouse.
• In 1789 a Cambridge undergraduate called William Margetson Heald published The Brunoniad, a mock epic poem about Brown, mocking his consumption of alcohol and opium and referring to a bar brawl in Dunn's Hotel in Edinburgh's New Town.
• He was frequently involved in on-ice altercations, and among other incidents he made headlines in 1996, when in a game against the Philadelphia Flyers after a few hits and Barnaby lying on the ice presumably injured, a brawl between the two teams started.
• The government suspended Geoff Clark as chair of ATSIC in 2003 after he was convicted of obstructing police during a pub brawl, and Lionel Quartermaine became acting chair.
• Yamanami served as a vice-commander, alongside Hijikata Toshizō after Niimi Nishiki was demoted for instigating a vicious street brawl with sumo wrestlers in Kyoto.
• During a nationally televised game on July 24, Varitek shoved his glove into the face of the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez after Rodriguez was hit by a pitch and gestured towards pitcher Bronson Arroyo, causing a bench-clearing brawl.

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