brawl

Object

• style: The French champion took the fight to Limond throughout the 10 round contest, but his inaccurate brawling style never seriously troubled the Scotsman.

Converse of object

• spark: Little Italy owner Eugenio Gentile said police did not know what sparked the brawl.
• follow: The Academy night club was shut down by Police in the early hours of Thursday morning following a mass brawl.
• start: Start a brawl in the middle of the exam.
• have: I could come back out or go back out and have a brawl in the crowd, whatever.
• ensue: A lion bumps into a tiger, knocking over his pint: who wins the ensuing brawl?

Preposition: in

• street: In Stirling, two brothers are arrested for brawling in the street.
• middle: Start a brawl in the middle of the exam.

Adjective modifier

• drunken: A full scale drunken brawl was in progress, no doubt.
• mass: March 14: Michael Gray has apologized for his reaction which kicked off the mass brawl on Saturday.
• massive: Of course, the " fun " on show here is a massive brawl with fans of the rival teams.
• unseemly: A stranger, stopping over on his way East from California; was stabbed to death in an unseemly brawl.
• burly: The special effects are awesome, although the computer generated effects on the burly brawl where more noticeable than I thought they would be.
• all-out: His challenge on George McCluskey's shin provoked an all-out brawl from which only Hibs keeper Alan Rough remained aloof.

Noun used with modifier

• barroom: In 1593, Marlowe was murdered in a barroom brawl by a drinking companion.
• bar-room: I wanted a prize-fight, not a bar-room brawl.
• tavern: Which famous playwright was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl?
• saloon: The result resembles a saloon brawl in the wild west.
• pub: Thomas the eldest son decides to spend the night in the chapel of rest, Michael becomes involved in a pub brawl.
• bar: At the time the band claimed the bar brawl followed an unprovoked attack.