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fisticuff

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Definitions

  1. A fistfight.

Word origin

From fist + cuff (“blow with the hand”). Modern uses as a verb are a back-formation on the plural uses of the noun.

Used in a sentence

  • Every fifteen or twenty minutes there was a rush to some part, to witness a fisticuff.
  • This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow—this wandering and tormented thing.
  • The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king.

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