noun
- informal fights or quarrels, especially brief ones
Usage: informal; plural of dustup
Examples
- The two players had several dustups during the season.
- Minor dustups between neighbors are common in apartment buildings.
- The meeting ended after a few dustups over the budget.
- Security quickly broke up the dustups in the parking lot.
- Political dustups dominated the news cycle this week.
- The siblings’ dustups never lasted more than a few minutes.