Usually means: Minor conflict or brief dispute.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. dust-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. dust-up, dust-up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Dust-Up, dust-up: Wordnik
  4. dust-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. dust-up, dust up: Wiktionary
  6. dust-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. dust up: Dictionary.com
  8. Dust Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. dust-up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. dust up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dust up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dust up)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To cover with dust.
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang) To attack (a person) physically; to beat up.

Similar:
dust, sand, bedizen, do up, filthy, bepowder, crumb, sprinkle, powder, fog up, more...

Adjectives:
stour, dusty, ground, nib, grated, triturated, pulverulent, comminuted, powdered, washing-up, abradant

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Similar:
dust, sand, bedizen, do up, filthy, bepowder, crumb, sprinkle, powder, fog up, more...

Adjectives:
stour, dusty, ground, nib, grated, triturated, pulverulent, comminuted, powdered, washing-up, abradant



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