fisticuff

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  1. A blow with the fist: commonly in the plural, combat with the fists; cuffs of the fist given and taken. There's two fisty-cuffs about it. Middleton (and another), Mayor of Queenborough, iii. 3. My invention and judgment are perpetually at fisticuffs, till they have quite disabled each other. Swift. People who share a cell in the Bastile, or are thrown together on an uninhabited isle, if they do not immediately fall to fisticuffs, will find some possible ground of compromise. R. L. Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, i.

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  • This led to a fisticuff between the attendants and those who came for the dead body. —  Latest Articles
  • Scott Smith and Benji Radach, two respected and affable strikers who had no problem delivering fisticuff fireworks for the fans in attendance before Smith caught Radach with a straight right at 3: 24 in the third round. —  Five Ounces of Pain
  • VOORHEES, N.J. - At the peak of their fisticuff ways, the Broad Street Bullies were assessed 58 fighting major penalties for an entire season. —  phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
  • His shortcomings were lost in the excitement of his intimidating physical style and his frequent fisticuff activities. —  Greatest Hockey Legends.com
  • In no account of this great conflict is any precision observed concerning the pell-mell and fisticuff parts of it. —  Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
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