Usually means: Conflict or disagreement between people.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word run in:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. run in: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. run-in, run in: Merriam-Webster
  3. run-in, run in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. run-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. run-in, run-in, run in: Collins English Dictionary
  6. run-in: Vocabulary.com
  7. Run-In, Run-in, run-in: Wordnik
  8. run-in: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. run-in, run in: Wiktionary
  10. run-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. run-in: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. run-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. run-in, run in: Dictionary.com
  14. run-in: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. run-in: Rhymezone
  16. run-in: FreeDictionary.org
  17. run-in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. run-in, run in: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. run-in: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run-in, run in: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run in: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. run in: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. run-in, run in: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Run-in: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (run in)

adjective:  Alternative form of run-in (adj) (styled open when in predicative position)
adjective:  (participial adjective; editing, typography) (not comparable) Having been run in before or behind previous text.
adjective:  (participial adjective; mechanical, engineering) (sometimes comparable) Having been run in to seat the parts.
verb:  (transitive, informal, chiefly passive voice) To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest.
verb:  (transitive, British) To use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage.
verb:  (figuratively) To start a new regime slowly.
verb:  (rugby) To score (a try).
verb:  (typography, printing) To insert (a word, etc.) without making a line break or new paragraph (so that it is not free-hanging).
verb:  (printing) To alter the position of matter to fill vacant space.
noun:  Alternative spelling of run-in (omitting the hyphens from nouns of this type is nonstandard in formal publications but widely seen in unedited writing) [An encounter; a scrape or brush, especially one involving trouble or difficulty.]

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