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no-holds-barred

(nōˈhōldzˈbärdˈ)

adjective
Informal
Open and unrestrained: “These paintings and charcoal drawings . . . are slightly tame compared with the no-holds-barred forcefulness of his self-generated vision” (Christopher Andreae).

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