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  • noun Alternative spelling of fistfight.

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Examples

  • The globe-trotting playboys, meet on holiday in the French Riviera, instantly disliking each other and destroying a hotel bar in a fist-fight.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Michael Stevens 2010

  • TO buckhunter, just read the "fist-fight" you and tx4ever got into in the backlash blog and had to put in MY two cents.

    Good hunting in Ohio 2009

  • But never mind that; as the above linked sources tell us, the most interesting feature of the face is the healed, broken nose, which our sources conjecture was received in a fist-fight with Arius at the Council of Nicaea.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • If he does actually ascend to the position, expect any Prime Directives that the country has to get thrown out the window (and at some point while he is in charge he will get into a fist-fight and get his shirt ripped off).

    23 « February « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009

  • If he does actually ascend to the position, expect any Prime Directives that the country has to get thrown out the window (and at some point while he is in charge he will get into a fist-fight and get his shirt ripped off).

    February « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009

  • TO buckhunter, just read the "fist-fight" you and tx4ever got into in the backlash blog and had to put in MY two cents.

    Good hunting in Ohio 2009

  • But never mind that; as the above linked sources tell us, the most interesting feature of the face is the healed, broken nose, which our sources conjecture was received in a fist-fight with Arius at the Council of Nicaea.

    Hey, Kiddies, Santa Claus is Dead! 2009

  • It's a good exercise to work with someone you trust enough that they can say, "That's not funny, Frank", and you don't start a fist-fight.

    Portrait of the artist: Frank Skinner, comedian 2011

  • If he does actually ascend to the position, expect any Prime Directives that the country has to get thrown out the window (and at some point while he is in charge he will get into a fist-fight and get his shirt ripped off).

    Weekly Update – Final 3 Eps of Pushing Daisies; Middleman Finale; BSG Movie: Boxey and Dr. Zee to the Big Screen? 2009

  • However, should Olympic-alternate wrestler, Couture, forget any illusions of duking it out with Toney in a fist-fight, then the impending double-leg takedown and follow-up ground-and-pound will help Randy wrap up one of the more straightforward wins of his career.

    Elliot Worsell: The Lights Are on and Lesnar's Home 2010

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