free-for-all

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹiːfəɹɔːl/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹiːfɚɔːl/

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Noun

free-for-all (plural free-for-alls)

1. (idiomatic) Chaos; a chaotic situation lacking rules or control.

   When the fire alarm went off, it was a free-for-all.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 134:

     [...] this was a consequence of building Tubes by means of a competitive free-for-all. Each company wanted to expand its territory at the expense of the others.

2. (video games) Deathmatch, sometimes specifically one in which every player is pitted against all the others.

Translations

chaos

• French: pagaille (fr) f, chacun pour soi (fr), foire d’empoigne (fr) f
• Lithuanian: chaosas m
• Portuguese: salve-se-quem-puder m, cada um por si
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• Romanian: competiție pentru toți f ; încăierare generală f
• Swedish: huggsexa (sv) c
• Tagalog: hilabo

deathmatch — see deathmatch

See also

• knockdown-dragout