Usually means: Pulling rope contest between teams.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. tug of war: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tug-of-war: Merriam-Webster
  3. tug of war: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tug of war: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tug-of-war, tug-of-war: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tug-of-war: Vocabulary.com
  7. tug-of-war: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tug-of-war, tug of war: Wiktionary
  9. tug of war: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tug of war: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tug-of-war, tug of war: Dictionary.com
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  13. tug-of-war: Rhymezone
  14. tug-of-war: FreeDictionary.org
  15. tug-of-war: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. tug-of-war, tug of war: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tug-of-war, tug of war: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tug of War, Tug-of-war, tug of war: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tug-of-War: Sports Definitions

Definitions from Wiktionary (tug of war)

noun:  A game or competition in which two teams pull or tug on opposite ends of a rope trying to force the other team over the line which initially marked the middle between the two teams.
noun:  (idiomatic) A dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back-and-forth dispute.

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