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Run-in   /rən-ɪn/   Listen
Run-in

noun
1.
An angry dispute.  Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, words, wrangle.  "They had words"






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"Run-in" Quotes from Famous Books



... was in his attitude something picturesquely heroic. Not since walking down the California campus one morning after the big game won three minutes before blowing of the final whistle, by his fifty-yard run-in of a punt, had he been in that posture—at once pleasant and difficult—in which one's vital concern is to wear an humility sufficiently convincing to obtain from friends forgiveness for the ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

... "If we're going to have a run-in with 'em, let's have it in the open, before they ...
— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman



Words linked to "Run-in" :   squabble, difference, affray, conflict, bickering, dispute, fracas, fuss, spat, bicker, difference of opinion, bust-up, pettifoggery, altercation, tiff



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