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Definition of Punch-up
1. Noun. A fistfight. "The quarrel ended in a punch-up"
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Punch-up
1. Noun. (informal) A fight with the fists. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punch-up
Literary usage of Punch-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of "Punch" by Marion Harry Spielmann (1895)
"... Hine—John Leech—His Early Life—Friendship with Albert Smith—Leech Helps Punch
up the Social Ladder—His Political Work—Leech Follows the "Movements"— ..."
2. The History of "Punch" by Marion Harry Spielmann (1895)
"... Strange Doctrine—John Phillips—W. Newman—Pictorial Puns—HG Hine—John Leech—His
Early Life—Friendship with Albert Smith—Leech Helps Punch up the Social ..."
3. Ford Methods and the Ford Shops by Horace Lucian Arnold, Fay Leone Faurote (1915)
"Bushings Forming Die Punch Down Middle Cross-Section of Bushing-Forming Dies at
Right, Punch Down; at Left, Punch Up See pages 304 and 305. and text. ..."
4. Report of the Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly of the State of New by Edwin A. Merritt, Edwin A. Merritt, Jr (1911)
"I can punch up a card in a minute and show you, if yon prefer, but you can see
at once. The two are brought together like that (illustrating), ..."
5. The Taylor Anecdote Book: Anecdotes and Letters of Zachary Taylor by Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1848)
"PUNCH UP MY OLD HORSE." The Kentucky cavalry joined General Taylor on his way
back from Victoria ... Old cock, punch up my horse, he is rather broke down. ..."
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