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- verb Present participle of
fistfight .
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Examples
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They drank hard and liked killing and fistfighting and knife-fighting and executing people they deemed criminals or enemies.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Loud voices behind us turned me around as two men went at it, fistfighting, turning over two tables until two large bouncers grabbed them and shoved them outside.
Nutrition 2010
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That's the place where every spring, tens of thousands of promising young neuroscience Ph.D. candidates converge for an all-day outdoor bacchanal of competitive drinking, portable-toilet racing and men's and ladies 'fistfighting that culminates in a signature event, "late afternoon involuntary sleeping."
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In any case, the common law has long distinguished between activities with social utility (medicine, sport) and those without (sadomasochism, fistfighting).
Impossible Consent 2008
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There's no doubt Sting's yoga bod and brooding good looks (especially that smoldering semi-scowl, honed in magazine photo shoots over the decades) have contributed to his rep as the enigmatic hitmaker who left his fistfighting Police days behind to pursue a fantastical family life in the English countryside -- all while working tirelessly on a songbook of technically-complex but otherwise breezy adult-format radio tunes.
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Old women fistfighting over electronic games for their grandchildren.
The Madness of Saint Nick Steve Perry 2009
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Republicans and Democrats are all but fistfighting on this Friday.
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Cattiness is forgiveable in a woman, but it's just extra ugly in a man, just like excessive fistfighting and machoness is extra ugly when done by a woman.
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Again, the violence in Popeye cartoons is a bit different, as a lot of it is really just broad slapstick fistfighting that you could find in live-action comedies too.
How Tom & Jerry Changed Cartoons Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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Again, the violence in Popeye cartoons is a bit different, as a lot of it is really just broad slapstick fistfighting that you could find in live-action comedies too.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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