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Definition tug-of-war in American English

tug-of-war noun

noun
1

a game in which two teams pull on opposite sides of a rope until one team succeeds in pulling the other team across a line between them

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2

a situation in which two people or groups try in a very determined way to get something that they want

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Definition tug-of-war in American English