Meaning

3 senses
  1. An encounter; a scrape or brush, especially one involving trouble or difficulty.

    сты́чкаstýčka

  2. The end-phase of a competition etc.

    Yahoo Sport's Leicester City blogger Helen Nutter gets ready for the Premier League run-in knowing her side - incredibly - still have a great chance of being crowned champions

  3. A sudden compression between two coupled railcars when the hinder one is moving faster than the fore one.

More definitions
  • an angry dispute

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
an encounter; a scrape or brush:

Origin

Derived from the verb run into.

Derived from the verb run into.

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Forms

plural: run-ins
Singularrun-in
Pluralrun-ins

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
run-in — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto