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  • noun Alternative spelling of dogfight.

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Examples

  • The group is now reconciled to closing ranks for a dog-fight over the next four months in an attempt to finish above Chelsea in fourth, which would see them qualify for the Champions League for the 15th season in succession.

    Arsenal must battle for Champions League spot, says Mikel Arteta 2012

  • But faced with the possibility of our sole night of high style swirling irretrievably toward dog-fight fashion show, we divided.

    Reporter's Notebook: Discount Fashion Comes at a Cost Elizabeth Williamson 2011

  • A week later we woke up in the morning to the dangdest dog-fight we'd ever heard.

    That Spot 2010

  • He stuck it to Newt Gingrich but without a dog-fight or losing much blood.

    CNN Florida Republican debate – as it happened 2012

  • Logically, if Wolves can beat the defending champions and the current league leaders, they ought to be able to take points from must-win games againstteams in the bottom quarter, though logic is rarely the most useful ally in a relegation dog-fight.

    Wolves can beat the best, so why can't they beat the rest? | Paul Wilson 2011

  • I've seen him go down in a dog-fight on the main street with fifty dogs on top of him, and when they were separated, he'd appear on all his four legs, unharmed, while two of the dogs that had been on top of him would be lying dead.

    That Spot 2010

  • And just then a dog-fight started, high up on the pile of freight -- Pee-lat lying beside the big box, and a white-haired brute belonging to one of the Indians.

    Flush of Gold 2010

  • The Experience then winds visitors through corridors and turbolifts to the heart of the Enterprise, the Bridge; and finally onto a shuttlecraft for an intense dog-fight over the simulated Las Vegas strip.

    Star Trek Fan Film To Boldly Go Where No Man Can Go Anymore? | Fan Cinema Today 2009

  • A week later we woke up in the morning to the dangdest dog-fight we'd ever heard.

    That Spot 2010

  • We are in a dog-fight, for sure, but there is a long way to go in the season, said the Wasps director of rugby, David Young, who took charge in the summer, a few months before Shaun Edwards left as head coach by mutual consent.

    Struggling Wasps should take a leaf or two from Sale's book 2012

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