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

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  1. run-in: Encyclopedia

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

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  1. Run-in: Sports Definitions

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noun:  An encounter; a scrape or brush, especially one involving trouble or difficulty.
noun:  The end-phase of a competition etc.
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.

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