cockfighting

Speech parts

1. cockfighting - Noun

2. cockfighting - Adjective

3. cockfighting - Verb

Meaning

The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.

Addicted to cockfighting.

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Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner. P. J. O'Rourke

All forms of gambling, including the gambling within secular cockfighting, were made illegal in 1981 by the Indonesian government, while the religious aspects of cockfighting within Balinese Hinduism remain protected. Source: Internet

In literature Nathanael West 's 1939 novel The Day of the Locust includes a detailed and graphic cockfighting scene, as does the Alex Haley novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the miniseries based on it. Source: Internet

He identified Tanagrian, Rhodic, Chalkidic and Median (commonly misidentified as Melian) breeds, which have an impressive appearance, a quarrelsome nature and were used for cockfighting by the Greeks (De Re Rustica 8.3.4). Source: Internet

Despite fighting cocks allowed to be used in cockfighting, "the state has designated them a protected species". Source: Internet

Domesticated chickens may have been used for cockfighting at first and quail kept for their songs, but soon it was realised how useful it was having a captive-bred source of food. Source: Internet

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