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Cockfighting

noun
1.
Participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight.





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"Cockfighting" Quotes from Famous Books



... well-beaten trail left it southward for El Paso, and its main street was lined with cantinas—saloons where mescal and tequila ran like water. There were gambling houses of ill repute, an open court for cockfighting, and other pastimes. The few gringos who were there looked, for the most part, like outlaws and fugitives from ...
— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens
... indentured servants labored, and from their coastwise and overseas trade. Their battles with forest and red man were long past. They had leisure for diversions such as the chase, the breeding and racing of thoroughbred horses, the dance, high play with dice and card, cockfighting, the gallantry of love, and the skill of the rapier. Law and politics drew their ...
— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner


Words linked to "Cockfighting" :   blood sport, spar


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