dust-up

See also: dustup and dust up

English

Etymology

Deverbal from dust up.

Noun

dust-up (plural dust-ups)

  1. Alternative spelling of dustup.
    • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and fact behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 58–59:
      There's market gardening, a ruined abbey with an isolated belltower, a battlefield trail and festival recalling a dust-up of 1265, and a plaque on the old Midland station.

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