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  • noun (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion

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Examples

  • In this annual literary bun-fight, five celebrity panelists are asked to defend their favourite Canadian work of fiction.

    Canada Reads 2009 update 2009

  • Canada's DMCA: CBC radio's Search Engine on the demonstrations and awesome Parliamentary bun-fight that followed

    Boing Boing 2007

  • But it will be a fleeting and messy telephone bun-fight – for a pitifully small plateful of buns.

    A beacon of hope? 2009

  • In this annual literary bun-fight, five celebrity panelists are asked to defend their favourite Canadian work of fiction.

    February 2009 2009

  • That has caused more than one bun-fight to break out at a tri-service mess dinner when a member of one of the other services pointedly disagreed with that moniker.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Dana 2008

  • The real winners from that bun-fight were the Democrats.

    Debatable Polls 2007

  • The real winners from that bun-fight were the Democrats.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

  • I'm sure very few of you will have much sympathy to what will seem to many as a bun-fight paid for by the taxpayer.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Kerron Cross 2006

  • I'm sure very few of you will have much sympathy to what will seem to many as a bun-fight paid for by the taxpayer.

    Council Receptions Kerron Cross 2006

  • As an example of things to come, Blair gave a “passionate” speech tonight at the bun-fight organised by the Foreign Office in London, although he failed to avoid the usual hackneyed clichés which have marked this coming event.

    An epidemic of rhetoric Richard 2004

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