Definition of "bust-up" [bust-up]

• A serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship). (noun)

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• "Campbell later posted on Twitter: "Match tasty in parts" and said the "so-called bust-up" was "all a bit handbags"."
• "We talked at length about civil rights because I thought that could be one of the bust-up points."
• "In fairness to Reo-Coker, who was wearing the captain's armband only a couple of months after being told to find another club and a little more than a year after his training ground bust-up with Martin O'Neill, there was much to admire about his part in the build-up."