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Bust-up (Noun)

Meaning

A serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship).

Classification

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Examples

  • They had a massive bust-up over whose fault it was, and never spoke again.
  • Their long-standing friendship ended in a public bust-up at the local pub.
  • The bust-up between the two friends was so intense that nobody expected them to reconcile.
  • A bust-up over a minor issue snowballed into an irreversible rift between them.
  • After a bitter bust-up, they decided to go their separate ways.

Hypernyms

  • Words
  • Wrangle
  • Run-in
  • Dustup
  • Row
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