What does fisticuff mean?
Fisticuff means (rare) A fistfight..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) A fistfight..
Every fifteen or twenty minutes there was a rush to some part, to witness a fisticuff.
This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow—this wandering and tormented thing.
The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king.
Generously scattering a drop of my fortune on an early morning sea breeze. Should have jumped after it. Grabber at life's banquet follows a fortune to doom. As folk fleece and fisticuff in street.
Do they fisticuff with thunder-snaggs […]
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Fisticuff means (rare) A fistfight..
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Every fifteen or twenty minutes there was a rush to some part, to witness a fisticuff.
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