OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28229

fisticuffs

/ˈfɪs.tɪ.kʌfs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
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An impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people.
People who share a cell in the Basti[l]le […] if they do not immediately fall to fisticuffs, will find some possible ground of compromise.
[…], his head all scarred with the sticks and fisticuffs which he had got in the taverns at Utrecht, […]
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