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noun
- A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, "His Chance in Life", Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 56:
- :But the Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness pleasant, Hindus and Muhammadans together raised an aimless sort of Donnybrook just to see how far they could go.
- 2003, Robert Casemore, Gold Is Where You Find It, Xlibris 2003, p. 47:
- :The regulars here, includin' me, put up a real to save the place.
Etymology: Named from w:Donnybrook, Dublin, Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, the site of a notoriously disorderly annual fair.
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