melee
noun [C usually singular] /ˈmel.eɪ/ literaryDefinition
› a large noisy uncontrolled crowd, in which people are moving in different directions and sometimes fighting with each other: We lost sight of each other in the melee.Groups of people
(Definition of melee noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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