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/təg-əv-wɔr/ Listen

Tug-of-war

noun

Any hard struggle between equally matched groups.

A contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses.

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... hook in the documentary dead, and find out what they had on them.... It's a curious sport, this body fishing. You have a sort of triple hook on a rope, and you throw it and drag. They do the same. The other day one body near Hooghe was hooked by both sides, and they had a tug-of-war. With a sharpshooter or so cutting in whenever our men got too excited. Several men were hit. The Irish—it was an Irish regiment—got him—or at least they got the ...

— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

Words linked to "Tug-of-war" : battle, athletic contest, conflict, athletic competition, athletics, struggle