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  • verb Present participle of tussle.

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Examples

  • Carol Burnett, who co-authored "Hollywood Arms," a 2002-03 Broadway play about her dysfunctional family, recalls tussling with the director after she included Tweety, her mother's whiskey-drinking parakeet, in the script.

    Return of the Prince Ellen Gamerman 2010

  • Carol Burnett, who co-authored "Hollywood Arms," a 2002-03 Broadway play about her dysfunctional family, recalls tussling with the director after she included Tweety, her mother's whiskey-drinking parakeet, in the script.

    Return of the Prince Ellen Gamerman 2010

  • Carol Burnett, who co-authored "Hollywood Arms," a 2002-03 Broadway play about her dysfunctional family, recalls tussling with the director after she included Tweety, her mother's whiskey-drinking parakeet, in the script.

    Return of the Prince Ellen Gamerman 2010

  • The two then began "tussling," said Herder, who claimed that Kitchen then took out a knife, which Herder said he grabbed and used to stab Kitchen.

    Philly.com - Latest Videos 2009

  • "tussling" on the part of players who are caught, pending the arrival of Hip to touch them with the stick, as he may have several to reach in this way, and the interval may be considerable in which the captor must hold his victim.

    Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Jessie Hubbell Bancroft

  • Not only did he have the ball in his hands when they were tussling, and finally they made the decision of who had the ball, then he came up with the ball.

    Virginia 24, No. 22 Miami 19: Three up, three down Steve Yanda 2010

  • I spend a lot of time on this blog tussling with some of the less-satisfying critiques of the Obama administration.

    Six things Obama has done wrong Ezra Klein 2010

  • "Once Reagan put him on the ticket," any friction over political tussling in the primaries "was all past and Reagan developed almost an affection for Bush, who was completely loyal to him."

    Lights and sirens, badges and guns for the TARP cops 2011

  • "Once Reagan put him on the ticket," any friction over political tussling in the primaries "was all past and Reagan developed almost an affection for Bush, who was completely loyal to him."

    Lights and sirens, badges and guns for the TARP cops 2011

  • It first appeared in the U.S. around the time the Dutch and the English were tussling over Manhattan, but it had been largely unavailable since Prohibition.

    Cocktails of the Past 2009

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