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free-for-all
UK /ˈfɹiːfəɹɔːl/ US /ˈfɹiːfɚɔːl/
noun 2adj 1
Definitions
noun
1
Chaos; a chaotic situation lacking rules or control.
When the fire alarm went off, it was a free-for-all.
Competition was the order of the day: the industrial warfare of the sixties was a free-for-all.
2
A deathmatch, sometimes specifically one in which every player is pitted against all the others.
adj
1
Of a fight, competition, etc., characterized by the absence or scarcity of formal rules or limitations.
Men, as well as women, were springing in to the rope and pulling. No longer was it team against team, but all Oakland against all San Francisco, festooned with a free-for-all fight.
Then Lucy told him about the great passion of her father—about the long, time-honored custom of free-for-all races, and the great races that had been run in the past; […]
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