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- Nick single, not out
- Handle, say, a new car dispute
- Haul off to jail
- Take downtown
- Disagreeable encounter
- Haul to the station house
- Encounter with the law
- Angry dispute
- Bit of a scrap
- Unpleasant interaction
- Tense encounter
- Take downtown, say
- Drop by briefly
- Contentious encounter
- Take to the station
- Make a quick stop
- Haul off to the police station
- Bring to the station
- Approach — disagreement
- Angry encounter
- ___ the family (be a hereditary trait): 2 wds
- Arrest, informally
- Quarrel
- Arrest, in slang
- Tiff
- Confrontation
- Bust
- Dustup
- Take to jail
- Altercation
- Drop by quickly
- Unpleasant encounter
- Row
- Brush with the law
- Spat
- Argument
- Arrest a crook
- Lock up
- Small to-do
- Disagreement (with authority?)
- Set-to
- Confrontation from start of really loveless marriage?