Definition of donnybrook

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don·ny·brook

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NOUN:

An uproar; a free-for-all. See Synonyms at brawl.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Donnybrook fair, held annually in Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, and noted for its brawls

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