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tug of war

Syllabification: (tug of war)
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Definition of tug of war

noun

  • a contest in which two teams pull at opposite ends of a rope until one drags the other over a central line.
  • a situation in which two evenly matched people or factions are striving to keep or obtain the same thing:a tug of war between builders and environmentalists

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