Syn: brawl.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. Hence: Any vigorous competition in which anyone can compete, with few or no rules, and in which the winner is unpredictable; as, when they began to distribute the free food, the orderly line of hungry recipients degenerated into a free-for-all. [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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