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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

free-for-all

· IPA /ˈfɹiːfɚɔːl/
01 n. a noisy and disordered fight conducted without rules.
  1. 1.
    a noisy and disordered fight conducted without rules.
  2. 2.
    Any vigorous competition in which anyone can compete, with few or no rules, and in which the winner is unpredictable; as, when they began to distribute the free food, the orderly line of hungry recipients degenerated into a free-for-all.
Syn. brawl.