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free-for-all

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mass brawl" (one in which all may participate), 1918, from earlier adjective use (1868), especially in reference to open horse races, American English. Earlier as a noun in reference to free-for-all horse and motorcar races.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a noisy fight in a crowd [syn: brawl ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
free-for-all \free-for-all\ n. a noisy and disordered fight conducted without rules. Syn: brawl. 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 ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Free-For-All is the second solo release from American guitarist Ted Nugent and his first album to go platinum.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ After Mathews was attacked, a free-for-all broke out in the audience. ▪ As the Internet free-for-all grows, it is becoming impossible for businesses to ignore. ▪ The sheer number of cars creates a free-for-all on the city's ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) chaos; a chaotic situation lacking rules or control.

Usage examples of free-for-all.

During the weekend they danced without mercy, drank themselves blind on home-brewed alcohol, made wild love among the icaco plants, and on Sunday at midnight they broke up their own party with bloody free-for-alls.

It mitigates the social effects of a demographic free-for-all by returning to the old, proven assimilationist model of the nineteenth century, which Americanized millions of Poles, Irish, Jews and Italians, who also came to America without money and en masse.

Vast tracts of land between Huanuco and San Martin were deemed suitable for settlement and the Peruvian interior became a free-for-all.

Eschaton free-for-all and serious Lord-, Ingersoll-, and Penn-injuries, both trainer Barry Loach and prorector Rik Dunkel having told Avril, and Schtitt to be told by whichever of Nwangi and deLint first works up the pluck, and the issue of telling Tavis being as would be S.

The dreaded red UGC beanie has been donned by an Eschaton game-master only once before, and that was over three years ago, when human input-error on EndStat tallies of aggregate SUFDDIR during a three-way SACPOP free-for-all yielded an apparent ignition of the earth's atmosphere.

Two slaves, friends of hers, had been crushed under the massive bodies of Cat teni during a free-for-all.

Every clan of the eastern tribes had a feud with somebody waiting to flare up again, and everyone was related to everyone else by descent or marriage or blood brotherhood, so a single killing could sprawl out into an uncontrollable free-for-all of ambushes and lethal brawls like a sweater unraveling from a single tug.

That would have been the end of the affair if Amsel, who had remained on the terrace while blows were falling in the garden, had contented himself with looking on: but he sketched his observations on cheap paper and built models the size of upright cigar boxes: wrestling groups, a muddled shapeless free-for-all of scrawny Cubs, short-panted, knee-socked, shoulder-strapped, brown-tattered, pennant-maddened, rune-bepatched, dagger belts askew, F&uuml.

Soon the discussion turned into the kind of scientific free-for-all that was the Kipuka Club’s major attraction for its loyal members.

Several Kinarri were on the fringes of the free-for-all, trying to make peace.

There was a brutal free-for-all as plants and animals migrated in all directions.

From that time onwards the ghastly job of trying to convince artificially stupefied people that a planned economy might be better than a free-for-all in which the worst man wins -- that job will never be quite so ghastly again.

He stood cocking an appreciative ear, very trim in riding boots, breeches, and shooting jacket, and none the worse, it seemed, for the free-for-all shooting match which was the last thing I remembered.

Yelling like a maniac, he struck down a couple from behind, plunging into the free-for-all, clawing his way toward the impish standard.