(New Zealand, informal) Competitors on a sporting field (often in a rugby game) getting into a fight; appearing threatening but not really causing any damage.
(New Zealand, informal) Competitors on a sporting field (often in a rugby game) getting into a fight; appearing threatening but not really causing any damage.
No comments yet — say something.
Add your own interpretation of "handbags at dawn".
UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
See all British & Irish slang slang on Slangora.
Browse all slang words starting with H.
(UK, slang) An insignificant fight or argument.
(British, slang) Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.
(British, transitive, idiomatic, humorous, metonym) To attack verbally or subject to criticism (typically used of a woman).
(UK, humorous) A verbal attack or criticism.
(British, humorous, idiomatic) A catty squabble.
No comments yet — say something.