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carve-up noun- a fight; a battle; a gang war UK, 1961
- There was too much of this sort of carve-up going on. Getting themselves all dolled up and then setting out to start a row–deliberately setting out to start trouble. — John Burke and Stuart Douglass, The Boys, p. 45, 1962
- an act of poor driving in which one vehicle cuts in front of another UK, 1984
- a division of loot, profits or the legacy of a will UK, 1935
- [T]he Chair is supposed to be politically neutral. It is not supposed to be part of a carve-up between parties[.] — P. Robinson, Northern Ireland Assembley, 15 February 1999
- a swindle UK, 1937
- — Jonathan Coe, The Winshaw Legacy; or, What a Carve Up!, 1996
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