Usually means: Struggle or fight; often playful.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tussle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tussle: Merriam-Webster
  3. tussle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tussle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tussle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tussle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tussle, tussle: Wordnik
  8. tussle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tussle: Wiktionary
  10. tussle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tussle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tussle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tussle: Dictionary.com
  14. tussle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tussle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tussle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tussle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tussle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tussle: Rhymezone
  20. tussle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tussle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. TUSSLE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Tussle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. tussle: FreeDictionary.org
  25. tussle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. tussle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tussle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tussle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tussle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tussle, tussle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tussle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tussled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A physical fight or struggle.
noun:  A conflict, an argument, a disagreement.
verb:  To have a tussle.

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