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Fisticuff   Listen
noun
Fisticuff  n.  A fight with the fists; boxing.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fisticuff" Quotes from Famous Books



... difference between romance and adventure. Romance is what you look forward to; adventure is something you look back upon. If many disagreeable occupations, hunger and an occasional fisticuff, may be classed as adventure, then I have had my run of it. But I always supposed adventure was the finding of treasures, on land and on sea; of filibustering; of fighting with sabers and pistols, and all that rigmarole. I can't quite lift my imagination up to the height of calling ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath

... o' being a kick-a-toe and fisticuff to everybody. Now, if I'd been rich and had a ship, I might 'a' ...
— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut



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