cockfight

Speech parts

1. cockfight - Noun

2. cockfight - Verb

Meaning

A match or contest of gamecocks.

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Examples

Abraham Valdelomar 's 1918 tale El Caballero Carmelo depicts a cockfight between the protagonist, a cock named Carmelo, and his rival Ajiseco from a child's perspective, who considered this bird as an heroic member of his family. Source: Internet

Balinese Hinduism includes the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious cockfight where a rooster is used to fight against another rooster. Source: Internet

In the Seinfeld episode " The Little Jerry ", Kramer enters his rooster into a cockfight in order to get one of Jerry's bounced checks removed from a local bodega where the cockfights actually take place. Source: Internet

In it, he argued that the cockfight served as a pastiche or model of wider Balinese society from which judgments about other aspects of the culture could be drawn. Source: Internet

The Spike TV show 1000 Ways to Die features a death involving a cockfight, where a man who bets on a rooster attaches razors to its claws to ensure its winning, but is slashed to death himself. Source: Internet

Upon entry of the Queens cockfight, authorities found the birds in small cages with razors attached to them. Source: Internet

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