dust-up

See also: dustup and dust up

English

Etymology

Deverbal from dust up.

Noun

dust-up (plural dust-ups)

1. Alternative spelling of dustup
   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and fact behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 58–59:

     There's market gardening, a ruined abbey with an isolated belltower, a battlefield trail and festival recalling a dust-up of 1265, and a plaque on the old Midland station.

References

• “dust-up”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.