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- verb Present participle of
playfight .
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Examples
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Come to Mamma sees Bryony Perkins and Gabriele Reuter intersperse pratfalls and playfighting with free-form screaming, Wayfaring Stranger starts strongly with surreal shape-making but declines into mawkish folk singing, and a sweary rant by Jane Leaney in Neat Timothy is so self-conscious that you sense the audience's embarrassment.
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My brothers Paul and Scotty were playfighting over the TV, trying to get to the screen so they could make humping actions at the ABC newsreader lady.
15th February '06 2006
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Last week we saw a bear cub and a wolf cub playfighting.
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Ben and Corin spent part of the evening playfighting as they cleaned the kitchen.
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They said the boys had been playfighting, falling off their beds or slipping over in a rock pool.
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Boys exposed to high levels of these in the womb were less likely than other boys to play with cars, trains and guns or engage in "rougher" games like playfighting.
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Ramsden and Gilligan were seen playfighting minutes before the incident, prosecutors said, and though several customers at the bar where the incident occurred witnessed the attack, they did not realise Gilligan had been stabbed.
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Boys exposed to high levels of these in the womb were less likely than other boys to play with cars, trains and guns or engage in "rougher" games like playfighting.
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Boys exposed to high levels of these in the womb were less likely than other boys to play with cars, trains and guns or engage in "rougher" games like playfighting.
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You may see a herd of elephants cross the river, splashing, playfighting once they arrive on the far side.
unknown title 2009
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