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Fisticuffs

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1600, OED Evaluation: N/A

Blows or fighting with the fists.

ExampleMeaning
I don 't even know how old he was, maybe sixteen, seventeen, perhaps eighteen, but anyway. Um, and he got into verbal fisticuffs with one of the patrons.
Fist fight
Speaker: I don 't even know how old he was, maybe sixteen, seventeen, perhaps eighteen, but anyway. Um, and he got into verbal fisticuffs with one of the patrons. Interviewer: Fisticuffs? Speaker: Fisticuffs, yes! I like that word. With a patron who was probably fourteen, he definitely younger, but again in that sub-adult-hormonal kind-of phase. And um you-know they were yelling at each other and calling each other names and you could see it and I was behind glass,
Fist fight
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: But ah of-course, two ah huh mm two similars don't always ah match up. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: So there was always brawls or- you-know, you write down the fisticuffs and...
Fist fight
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Fighting, fighting for the puck. Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: Not necessarily the fisticuffs-type of thing, right. Interviewer: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaker: I didn't do much of that but ah yeah, we played a lot of games. I was on the all-star team for a while...
Fist fight