joust
noun/dʒaʊst/
/dʒaʊst/
- an event in which people fight on horses using a long stick (= a lance) to try to knock the other person off their horse, especially as part of a formal contest in the past
- a medieval joust
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- (formal) an act of arguing with somebody, especially as part of a formal or public debate
- the weekly verbal joust called Prime Minister's Questions
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