fistfight

Speech parts

1. fistfight - Noun

2. fistfight - Verb

Meaning

a fight with bare fists

fight with the fists

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

fisticuffs hand battle fight combat bare boxing scrape knuckle scuffle tussle pugilism pugilistic slugfest barehanded
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Antonyms

knife fight

Hypernyms

fighting fight combat struggle contend scrap

Hyponyms

punch-up

Examples

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too. Pauline Kael

I'd heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word "utilize” instead of "use. Patrick Rothfuss

His heart was in the right place. He wanted a religion that could plausibly comfort widows and orphans without committing them to patriarchy, intolerance, fundamentalism, or weird dietary laws. He wanted a religion that wasn't in a perpetual fistfight with modern cosmology. Robert Charles Wilson

The man wanted to fist-fight Source: Internet

At the post-race dinner, Turner verbally assaulted Murdoch, afterward challenging him to a televised fistfight in Las Vegas. Source: Internet

In 1979, he snapped a 45-race drought, winning his sixth Daytona 500, the first to be televised live flag-to-flag; it would become notorious for a fistfight between competitors following the controversial finish. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

fisted fistee fister fistfighter fistfuck fistful