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tear-ups

tear-ups is the plural of tear-up.

Meaning of tear-up

Noun

tear-up (plural tear-ups)

  1. (UK, slang) A fight; a scrap.
    • We'd give him a bit of verbal, out would come the bouncers, chucking their weight about, and it would all end in a right tear-up.2013, Lenny McLean, The Guv'nor

Questions about tear-ups

What is tear-ups the plural of?
Tear-ups is the plural of tear-up.

Words near tear-ups in the dictionary

  1. tear-pit
  2. tear-stained
  3. tear-throat
  4. tear-throats
  5. tear-up
  6. tear-ups
  7. tearable
  8. tearably
  9. tearabout
  10. tearabouts
  11. tearage

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