Usually means: Violent fight among several people.
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  1. brawl: Merriam-Webster
  2. brawl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brawl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brawl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brawl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brawl, brawl: Wordnik
  7. brawl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brawl: Wiktionary
  9. brawl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brawl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brawl: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brawl, brawl: Dictionary.com
  13. brawl (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brawl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Brawl (Transformers), Brawl (game), Brawl (video game), Brawl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brawl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brawl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brawl: Rhymezone
  19. brawl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brawl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. brawl: FreeDictionary.org
  22. brawl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. brawl: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. brawl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. brawl: Legal dictionary

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  1. brawl: Encyclopedia

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  1. BRAWL: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brawl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See brawled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
verb:  (intransitive) To create a disturbance; to complain loudly.
verb:  (intransitive) Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to make a loud, confused noise.
verb:  (transitive) To pour abuse on; to scold.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake.
noun:  (dance, obsolete) A type of dance move or step.
noun:  (dance, music, historical) Alternative form of branle (“dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance”) [A dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance.]

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