to fistfight

Examples

• All

• Want to see Shannon fistfight Bananaman to the death?

  Blog text (17)

• I'm not here to fistfight anyone on the matter of homeschooling.

  Blog text (21)

• I could get mad sometimes, so mad I was like a guy when he gets drunk and wants to fistfight.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Can we call a truce, or do we have to actually fistfight?

  Tammy (2014)

• This guy's got hookers up there fistfighting.

  Smokin' Aces (2006)

• Fistfight as Archer and Dubov take on the attacking guards.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Want to see Han Solo fistfight a lightsaber-wielding Darth Vader?

  Blog text (30)

• When I have to get up in the middle of the night and defend my home with a shotgun against a couple of damned scoundrels fistfighting in the bushes, Mother.

  Fiction book (1991)

• When she is lying in her bed at night, she sees gypsy moths fistfighting in the wall and hears pumpernickel swans discussing yesterday's math problems together.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Some kids were fistfighting next door during the summer break.

Synonyms

F

to fight

vsto fistfight

∞ 1.0

To take part in a physical or verbal struggle against someone

is specifically an angry hand-only physical confrontation rather than any conflict

B

to battle

vsto fistfight

372 2.7

To fight against someone or something for a long time

is a short angry close hand fight not a long or large group conflict

B

to box

vsto fistfight

47 2.0

To fight another person using the fists, often as a sport

is angry street fighting rather than a controlled sport

B

to brawl

vsto fistfight

9 4.4

To fight loudly and violently in a public place

is typically a smaller two-person angry hand fight rather than a large melee

C

to come to blows

vsto fistfight

8 6.5

To start fighting physically with someone after an argument

is the actual hand-to-hand fighting rather than just its beginning

T

to tussle

vsto fistfight

7 5.3

To fight roughly with another person at close range

focuses on hitting with fists rather than grabbing or pushing

S

to scuffle

vsto fistfight

4 5.1

To fight briefly at close range by pushing or grabbing

is a clear angry fist-only confrontation rather than a chaotic close struggle

C

to catch hands

vsto fistfight

• Slang

9.9

To get into a physical fight with someone

is the standard neutral term for an angry physical confrontation

How Violent

to fight

∞ 1.0

to fistfight

1 4.1

to grapple

10 5.1

to shove

528 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology