An uproar, a disturbance; a row, a quarrel; (also) fuss, commotion.
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... when I was a music camp counselor for the city and it was different than karate 'cause karate we have a sense of discipline with the kids while these kids had no sense of discipline. Um, I think some of the kids would be causing a lot of ruckus because they really didn't want to be there. They wanted to be the parents and the parents just dropped them off ... |
An uproar, a disturbance; a row, a quarrel; (also) fuss, commotion. |
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... said "The 'coons are going to get into it". "No, no, no, that won't happen. They can't get into this, this is a special walking cooler" and blah-blah-blah. Okay, a big man, good friend of mine. Well, two-three-o'clock in the morning he hears this ruckus and he thought it was a bear. So he didn't come out of his trailer. The next morning, sure enough, cooler's upside-down, totally emptied. And he come over and woke me up and we went over and he said "See, a bear got it, bear got it!" |
An uproar, a disturbance; a row, a quarrel; (also) fuss, commotion. |
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I don't know who we were playing, and this was in Sarnia ah she must have really aggravated this girl and- and she punched her in the hand-shake and ah then started a ruckus in the hallway with like just verbally cross. And I couldn't figure out what was going, all the sudden the other team started yelling over us, and I "Wah whoa. Why are they yelling at us?" And somebody said, "Oh so-and-so, punched one of them in the handshake." |
An uproar, a disturbance; a row, a quarrel; (also) fuss, commotion. |
... you're supposed- you're supposed to be an example to those girls on the bench and- a good example I should say, a good example to those girls. And he just- he just completely wasn't. No, no that- and that was this year's- yeah. We had we had ruckus- ruckus in Matheson. |
An uproar, a disturbance; a row, a quarrel; (also) fuss, commotion. |
Anyway there was a um bad- bad bear (inc) and-everything, so they were coming in on- on everybody trying to find food (inc) Kirkland too. And ah we were in one of the cottages and he started raising a ruckus and ah sort of different (inc). I stepped outside and I looked and there's this great big bear. |
An uproar, a disturbance; a row, a quarrel; (also) fuss, commotion. |
| Example | Meaning |
Just- just raging, you-know what I mean? You can just feel him like- and ah basically with me, something was happening in class- wasn't really disturbing or ruckus but they were like, "Na-na," nitpicking at him- |
An uproar, a disturbance; a row, a quarrel; (also) fuss, commotion. |
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The cattle would come in and 'course the church were in and all this ruckus and-stuff going on out there with these cattle trying to get them into their trucks or-whatever it was they were taking them home in and they said it was terrible on Sunday morning because every Sunday- |
An uproar, a disturbance; a row, a quarrel; (also) fuss, commotion. |
