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tug-of-war
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tug-of-war has 2 senses
- tug-of-war(n = noun.act) Array - any hard struggle between equally matched groups; Array is a kind of battle, conflict, struggle
- tug-of-war(n = noun.event) Array - a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses; Array is a kind of athletic competition, athletic contest, athletics
THESAURUS
tug-of-war
action, aerial combat, affray, armored combat, attraction, battle, battle royal, brush, bullfight, clash, clash of arms, cockfight, combat, conflict, dogfight, draft, drawing, drayage, embroilment, exchange of blows, extraction, fight, fire fight, fray, ground combat, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, haulage, hauling, heaving, house-to-house combat, naval combat, passage of arms, pitched battle, pull, pulling, pulling power, quarrel, rumble, running fight, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, shoving match, skirmish, stand-up fight, street fight, struggle, tauromachy, towage, towing, traction, tractive power, tugging, tussle
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