Students should not fight, scuffle, or throw objects inside the bus.
Nearly every scuffle was designed to help a gang's chosen candidate into public office.
Various scuffle or oscillating hoes are especially useful for weeding under spreading plants.
There's another scuffle going on in the set-top box market.
Some scuffle across the ice, pushing up little bow waves of snow with their snouts.
The officer was stabbed when he tried to intervene in the scuffle.
However, every once in awhile, the two dogs will get into a scuffle.
In the video the scuffle appears to have set off a scramble of fans.
Neighbors who heard a scuffle called the police, who chased the suspect to another building in the housing project.
The dogs ran one lynx down and killed it among the rocks after a vigorous scuffle.
British Dictionary definitions for scuffle
scuffle1
/ˈskʌfəl/
verb (intransitive)
1.
to fight in a disorderly manner
2.
to move by shuffling
3.
to move in a hurried or confused manner
noun
4.
a disorderly struggle
5.
the sound made by scuffling or shuffling
Word Origin
C16: from Scandinavian; compare Swedish skuff, skuffa to push
scuffle2
/ˈskʌfəl/
noun
1.
(US) a type of hoe operated by pushing rather than pulling
Word Origin
C18: from Dutch schoffelshovel
Word Origin and History for scuffle
v.
"to push or fight in a disorderly manner," 1570s, probably a frequentative form of scuff, of Scandinavian origin. Related: Scuffled; scuffling. As a noun c.1600, from the verb.
Slang definitions & phrases for scuffle
scuffle
v,v phr
To make one's modest living the best one can; struggle along; get by, scrape along, scruff(1939+ Jazz musicians)