fistfight
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈfɪstˌfaɪt/
:
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- He and his roommate got into a fistfight.
- fistfight broke
- arguments into fistfights
Yeah, I love that I got into a fistfight with Roseanne.
- Yeah, I love that I got into a fistfight with Roseanne.
- It's more like a, a fistfight in high school.
- Do you know, like before, maybe arguments could have been solved by fistfights and stuff like that.
- So I've only called the police one time in my life and it was, it was on my, my dad because we got in a fistfight.
- Baxian attacked him, ripped him off of the woman, and you know they got in this huge fistfight.
- Go at it with no, because it's a audio app, you're not allowed to start getting into physical fistfight.
Examples
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And so, let us turn to the fistfight to begin the story.
Academic text (2001) -
The only way to lose a fistfight with a blind man was to come straight at him.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's more like a, a fistfight in high school.
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Yeah, straight up fistfight in the studio bathroom.
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What we're gonna do is we're gonna have just a little bit of a fistfight, all right?
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Once he almost had a fistfight with a high official of the church.
Fiction book (1994) -
A year ago, he basically ruined it by getting in a fistfight with his coach in the first hour of the first day.
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Maybe news of the fistfight has made its way through the ranks.
Fiction book (1995) -
They get way too drunk and get in fistfights.
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After arguing for several minutes, they decided to settle their differences with a fistfight in the parking lot.
Synonyms
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1.3
A physical struggle between people or groups that involves hitting and sometimes weapons
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4.6
A noisy, violent fight among a group in a public place
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5.1
To fight briefly at close range by pushing or grabbing
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7.8
A physical fight where people hit each other with fists
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8.1
A sudden intense physical fight that often becomes violent
A physical fight using only hands between people
A short fight using the fists
A close fight between people without weapons
Antonyms
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fistfight comes from fist ('closed hand used for hitting') and fight ('a physical fight'), so it literally means a fight using the hands, not weapons.