'free-for-all' definitions:
Definition of 'free-for-all'
(from WordNet)
noun
A noisy fight in a crowd [syn: brawl, free-for-all]
Definition of 'free-for-all'
From: GCIDE
- free-for-all \free-for-all\ n.
- 1. a noisy and disordered fight conducted without rules.
- Syn: brawl. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. Hence: Any vigorous competition in which anyone can compete, with few or no rules, and in which the winner is unpredictable; as, when they began to distribute the free food, the orderly line of hungry recipients degenerated into a free-for-all. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'free-for-all'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ado,
- affray,
- bedlam,
- Bedlam let loose,
- blast,
- bobbery,
- bother,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- charivari,
- chirm,
- clamor,
- clangor,
- clap,
- clatter,
- commotion,
- din,
- discord,
- disturbance,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- drunken brawl,
- dustup,
- embroilment,
- fight,
- flap,
- foofaraw,
- fracas,
- fray,
- fuss,
- hassle,
- hell broke loose,
- helter-skelter,
- howl,
- hubbub,
- hue and cry,
- hullabaloo,
- jangle,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- loud noise,
- melee,
- noise,
- noise and shouting,
- outcry,
- pandemonium,
- pell-mell,
- pother,
- racket,
- rampage,
- rattle,
- rhubarb,
- riot,
- roar,
- rough-and-tumble,
- roughhouse,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- rumble,
- rumpus,
- scramble,
- scrimmage,
- shindy,
- shivaree,
- stir,
- thunder,
- thunderclap,
- tintamarre,
- to-do,
- trouble,
- tumult,
- turmoil,
- uproar