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1. Disorderly fighting
   - hassle [informal], scuffle, dogfight, rough-and-tumble

1. Fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
   "the drunken men started to tussle";
   - scuffle, stoush [Austral, NZ, informal], brawl
    
2. Make messy or untidy
   "the child tussled up my hair";
   - muss [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: tussles, tussled, tussling

Type of: combat, disarrange, fight, fighting, scrap, struggle

Encyclopedia: Tussle