tuorial.html - {n.}
1. A game in which two teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, trying to pull the other team
over a line marked on the
ground.
* /The tug-of-war ended when both teams tumbled in a heap./
2. A contest in which two sides try to defeat each other; struggle.
* /A tug-of-war developed between the boys who wanted to go fishing and those who wanted to go hiking./
* /Betty felt a tug-of-war between her wish to go to the movies and her realizing she had to do her homework./
* /The tug of war between the union
men and management ended in a
long strike./