Usage of "gamecocks" | TermGallery

rus

птичьи бои

portuguès

briga de galos

espanyol

gallero

català

lluites de galls

Blood sport.

cockfight

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lluites de galls

Women's basketball team of the University of South Carolina.

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ncaa division i women's basketball team

Usage of gamecocks in anglès

I've seed 'em at seventy, an' shufflin' about peart as Marse Clarence's gamecocks. 
 The Crisis — Complete 

There were four ungainly, monstrous birds like oversized Cornish Game gamecocks pecking at him. 
 Operation: Outer Space 

And Monsieur Leon, perchance you will make a bid, although they are not gamecocks. 
 Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill 

Every man, no matter how poor, owns a horse and three or four gamecocks. 
 History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other... 

The bugles called to each other like brazen gamecocks. 
 The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War 

The Vinicius are good soldiers, but still better gamecocks. 
 Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero 

Hers were the roosts for the gamecocks. 
 Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula 

And if they turn out to be gamecocks, I will fight them with Monsieur Leon behind the cabaret. 
 Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill 

Fed up, by God, like gamecocks. 
 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 

After dinner the disciplinarian and I converse-ofdogs and horses, gamecocks, convicts, and moving accidents by flood and field. 
 For the Term of His Natural Life 

Children and dogs squat by the mud stoops and gamecocks flap and settle in the branches of the fruit trees. 
 Blood Meridian 

But what are these goings-on? said the Colonel, staring at young Mr. Colfax, rigid as one of his own gamecocks. 
 The Crisis — Complete 

Only during breeding season did the sociable flocks separate into pairs and the males behave like feisty gamecocks with former friends. 
 The Valley of Horses 

A mixture of gamecocks and ponies and race horses and billiards, and idleness at the Virginia Springs, and fighting with other boys. 
 The Crisis — Complete 

The poor gamecocks, with cruel spurs upon their feet, tearing each other to pieces, and blood and feathers all over the place. 
 Betty at Fort Blizzard 

You see, there are eight other gamecocks, and they fight like furies if they get together, so we're putting one in each bedroom. 
 Beasts and Super-Beasts 