fisticuffs

[ US /ˈfɪstɪˌkəfs/ ]
[ UK /fˈɪstɪkˌʌfs/ ]
NOUN
  1. fighting with the fists
  2. a fight with bare fists
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How To Use fisticuffs In A Sentence

  • You just have to put up with a bit of shouting and the occasional fisticuffs.
  • Bring on Braniac or someone like Bizarro that the Big Blue Boyscout can wreck whole cities with while engaged in herculean fisticuffs. Christopher Nolan Talks Superman: “We Know the Genre and How to Get it Done Right”; Jonathan Nolan at Work on Batman 3 | /Film
  • As the two No 9s flailed about on the floor, the two packs closed for a bout of ugly and prolonged fisticuffs, a scenario that was repeated throughout the match.
  • This struggle finally reached the point at which cowhiding, cane thrashing and fisticuffs in the Capitol itself occurred among the candidates, and the jobbery became so openly vile and scandalous, that even a Democratic Legislature concluded it best to temporarily eliminate the jobbery feature of it, and this was done for two years of the Democratic adminisiration. People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898.
  • While tracking Tony's daughter down, Angela finds herself in fisticuffs with a saucy waitress, and is revealed as a monstrous hypocrite.
  • And anyone who knows me will tell you that I frown upon fisticuffs.
  • The legal fisticuffs come at a critical time for Nigeria. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then, according to Ken anyway, Jerry ‘ran like a woman out of the club’ to escape potential fisticuffs.
  • But the rigorous selection process ensured that none of the crew came to fisticuffs. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the rigorous selection process ensured that none of the crew came to fisticuffs. Times, Sunday Times
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