subs. (colloquial).—A disturbance; a ROUGH AND TUMBLE (q.v.). As verb = to beat, bang, destroy.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The House-Warming.’
| Then more calling, and bawling. And squalling, and falling, | |
| Oh! what a fearful ‘STRAMASH’ they are all in! |
1861. H. KINGSLEY, Ravenshoe, xxxvi. I and three other University men, three Pauls and a Brazenose, had a noble STRAMASH on Folly-bridge. That is the last fighting I have seen.
