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- noun Alternative form of
cockfighting .
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Examples
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Near the far end of the wing, close by the river, is the cock-fighting pit.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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He likes cock-fighting with curved steel spurs that slash to the heart of life and cast a crimson splash upon the dull gray of living.
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Near the far end of the wing, close by the river, is the cock-fighting pit.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Does anybody else feel that this video is fostering an attitude that encourages things like dog and cock-fighting?
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As this picture vividly displays, such practices along with rat-killing, cock-fighting etc. were long and widely supported as is fox hunting today in many country regions.
Frederick Morgan - The Dancing Bear Hermes 2009
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Some people make the case that dog fighting — with all of its violence, gambling and male posturing — has deep roots in rural, Southern culture, much like cock-fighting in Latin America.
Michael Vick's Second Chance Juan Williams 2009
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The people of West Virginia won't vote for Barack Obama because, like the creatures in "The Hills Have Eyes," their inbred eyes see right through Obama's chocolate-hued skin and therefore they don't believe he actually exists, in which case they believe he is a demon sent on a mission from Satan to burn down their cock-fighting arenas.
Poll: Obama Losing West Virginia Primary By More Than Two To One 2009
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The remainder is mainly drinking, gambling, rioting, cock-fighting and other branches of debauchery, either practiced or contemplated by the friends.
Jemmy Catnach: proto-comic publisher Steve 2009
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The highlight of our hanging out was yesterday when we sat around for a little while and tried to figure out how to get his cock-fighting chicken out of the latrine.
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From a column by Wilson Lee Flores Philippine Star, 21 January 2008:I urge the state to build more public libraries and to rebuild our National Library, instead of more waiting sheds, basketball courts or cock-fighting pits.
Of Budgets, Leadership and the National Library vonjobi 2008
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