free-for-all vs hassle

free-for-all

noun
  • Chaos; a chaotic situation lacking rules or control. 

  • Deathmatch, sometimes specifically one in which every player is pitted against all the others. 

adj
  • Open to anyone and with no or few rules. 

hassle

noun
  • Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems. 

  • A fight or argument. 

  • An action which is not worth the difficulty involved. 

adj
  • hassling; hasslesome 

verb
  • To engage in a mock dogfight. 

  • To pick a fight or start an argument with. 

  • To trouble, to bother, to annoy. 

How often have the words free-for-all and hassle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )