(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fight, an argument.
1996, Elizabeth Knox, Glamour and the Sea, Victoria University Press, New Zealand, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QGMd8IscN4YC&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=%22stoush%22|%22stoushes%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=YjNflbh…
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(Australia, informal) To fight; to argue.
1916, C. J. Dennis, The Call of Stoush, The Moods of Ginger Mick, 2009, Sydney University Press, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=aGB5aKtqr24C&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=%22stoush%22|%22stoushes%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl…
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