Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fight between gamecocks, often fitted with metal gaffs, that is arranged as a spectacle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A match or contest of cocks; a very ancient sport, in which cocks, usually armed with long steel spurs bound to the shanks, are set to fight with each other, commonly in a “pit,” so called.
Wiktionary
- n. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
- v. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookie), a cockfighting event.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A match or contest of gamecocks.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs
Etymologies
- cock + fight (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That is what they term a cockfight dear boy, you must be a Mexican to attend one I fear.”
“Most were arrested on suspicion of being present at a cockfight, which is a Class 1 misdemeanor”
“In California, participating in or knowingly attending a cockfight is a crime.”
“Being a spectator at a cockfight is a misdemeanor offense with a maximum penalty of 30 days in jail or a $50 fine.”
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“I should have expected the "cockfight" would amount to a quick display of two cheerfully bored roosters who could have auditioned for a wholesome children's show.”
“All I wanted was to stop the bullshit, not get into a preternatural cockfight.”
“In February, a bullfight and cockfight in Quito called "Bulls and Cocks for Freedom" drew about 15,000 people.”
USA Today: Ecuador's efforts to ban bullfighting has some fans seeing red
“West is like a cunning snake charmer as he describes a cockfight in a garage or an army of extras moving across a papier-mâché mountain in a Napoleonic swirl.”
“Mexicans, and that in two or three generations the Californians would be seen of a Sunday morning on their way to a cockfight with”
“Lincoln was once invited to referee a cockfight where a bird refused combat.”
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Against Nature
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Interesting words
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