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fisticuffs
noun[ plural ]
old-fashioned or humorousuk /ˈfɪs.ti.kʌfs/ us /ˈfɪs.ti.kʌfs/
fighting in which people hit each other with their fists拳斗;互殴
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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armed combat
arms
array
bellicosity
blood diamond
bloodlessly
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firefight
pick on someone your own sizeidiom
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remobilization
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see action
tilt at windmillsidiom
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A dispute arising on this point, the two noble generals came to fisticuffs, and in the fracas our brave commander got his remaining well eye badly damaged.
It is as though they were on the point of breaking into fisticuffs.
Let fisticuffs settle it!
The situation was growing strained, and might well culminate in fisticuffs.
Tom would have been glad to challenge him to a bout at fisticuffs, for he was confident he could vanquish him in short order.
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