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Club with loud music sure ruined conversation (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

discourse

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'sure ruined conversation' is the definition.
'discourse' can be an answer for 'conversation' (I've seen this before). I'm not certain of the 'sure ruined' bit.

'club with loud music' is the wordplay.
'club' becomes 'disco' (I've seen this before).
'with loud' becomes 'urs' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'music' becomes 'e'.
'disco'+'urs'+'e'='DISCOURSE'

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(Other definitions for discourse that I've seen before include "Communication verbally" , "Speech - conversation" , "To hold a conversation" , "(Formal) talk" , "Engage in conversation; debate" .)

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