Thesaurus results for MELEES

melees

noun

plural of melee

as in brawls

a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people a verbal disagreement at the football game soon turned into a general melee involving scores of spectators

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Recent Examples of melees There was a bunch of melees on the ice today. —

Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026 College basketball games recently have turned into full-contact melees after hard fouls on the court. —

Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026

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Other brewhouse brawls happen at Magnanimous Brewing in Tampa (Havoc And Haze) and Walking Tree Brewery in Vero Beach (Rooted In Chaos), often drawing 300 to 500 visitors, CCW co-owner Dan Ackerman says.

— Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
While on-ice brawls are nothing new in professional ice hockey, flying fisticuffs have a history in the police and fireman face off from years past.

— Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026