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

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

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)

If many disagreeable occupations, hunger and an occasional fisticuff, may be classed as adventure, then I have had my run of it.

From Parrot & Co. by MacGrath, Harold

His food would be snatched away and a lively fisticuff probably follow during which the inevitable “yaller dog” was usually the gainer.

From The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains by Mullins, Isla May