cockfight

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Etymology

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From cock +‎ fight.

Noun

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cockfight (plural cockfights)

  1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
    Synonym: (archaic) cockmatch

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cockfight (third-person singular simple present cockfights, present participle cockfighting, simple past and past participle cockfought)

  1. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
    • 1994, Charlise Lyles, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?, page 245:
      I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.

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