fisticuff

Example Sentences

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It was not often that my siblings had true fights, but when they did, they were monster, one-on-one fisticuff affairs, and Helen had picked the Mount Everest of fighters.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

He had a fisticuff encounter with "Cerro Gordo" Williams, in which he came out victorious, having knocked Williams into the gutter.

From Fifty Years of Public Service by Cullom, Shelby M.

I'm tired o' being a kick-a-toe and fisticuff to everybody.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

How many men are like the clenched fist—pugnacious, disputatious, quarrelsome, always spoiling for a fight; a verbal fisticuff, if not a physical one, is their delight.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John

Ireland and Scotland were about to set to; Erin was going to fisticuff Gajothel.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor