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BATTLE ROYAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does battle royal mean?
• BATTLE ROYAL (noun)
The noun BATTLE ROYAL has 1 sense:
1. a noisy riotous fight
Familiarity information: BATTLE ROYAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A noisy riotous fight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
battle royal; melee; scrimmage
Hypernyms ("battle royal" is a kind of...):
disturbance (the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion)
Context examples
Battle royal was waged, amid the smoking of many cigarettes and the expectoration of much tobacco-juice, wherein the tramp successfully held his own, even when a socialist workman sneered, There is no god but the Unknowable, and Herbert Spencer is his prophet.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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