knife fight

Noun

Meaning

fighting with knives

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

knife-fight

Synonyms

snickersnee cut-and-thrust

Antonyms

pugilism shootout slugfest fisticuffs gunfight fistfight
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Hypernyms

fight fighting combat scrap

Examples

An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight. Lee Child

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine. Laurell K. Hamilton

Close letter words and terms

knife designed for use in hunting knife designed to cut wood knife ear knife for boning meat knife for carving cooked meat knife for carving meat