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Definition: Punch-up |
Punch-upNoun1. (British) a fistfight; "the quarrel ended in a punch-up". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Punch-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Punch-up" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "punch-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бой с юмруци (fisticuffs, stand-up fight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 拳" (Punch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | prügelei (fight), Schlägerei (affray, bovver, brawl, fight, fray, ruction, set to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hirig (mill, roughhouse, scuffle), bunyó (aggro, fight, fisticuffs, free for all, hammering, mill, thrashing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | zuffa (brawl, fight, fray, rough and tumble, ruction, scrap, scuffle, tussle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 펀치 위로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unch-uppay pelea (battle, broil, bust up, combat, concourse, cut, fight, fighting, hassle, infighting, mix in, mix up, quarrel, scene, scrambling, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, shindig, shindy, skirmish, tiff, tussle). (various references) yumruklaşma (exchange of blows, fisticuffs), kavga (affray, brawl, brawling, broil, bust up, conflict, contention, dispute, feud, fight, fighting, fray, jangle, jar, kick up, miff, odds, quarrel, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, set to, shooting match, strife, tilt, unpleasantness, wrangle), dövüş (affray, fight, scrap, set to, tilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-n-p-p-u-u" | |
-2 letters: punch. | |
-4 letters: cup, hun, hup, pun, pup. | |
-5 letters: nu, uh, un, up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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