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Meanings of
fisticuffs
in English
Catalan
cops de puny
Spanish
puñetazos
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A fight with bare fists.
fistfight
slugfest
Catalan
cops de puny
Portuguese
boxe
Catalan
boxa
Spanish
puñetazos
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Fighting with the fists.
boxing
pugilism
Portuguese
boxe
Usage of
fisticuffs
in English
1
Really, she was getting very tired of these constant bouts of
fisticuffs
.
2
Economics
fisticuffs
No one's arguing sustainable growth is a good thing.
3
In this the twins agreed:
fisticuffs
were not worth their time.
4
Student food is a minefield; with freezer politics ending in
fisticuffs
.
5
All week, by golly, I am hearing about you and the
fisticuffs
business.
6
We had a turn at
fisticuffs
which resulted in my favor.
7
She was, when it came down to verbal
fisticuffs
,
easy meat.
8
The situation was growing strained, and might well culminate in
fisticuffs
.
9
Hypnotism was a show-man's flourish, window dressing for old-fashioned
fisticuffs
and detective work.
10
Bulliballock, make sign to him of a hail of
fisticuffs
upon the muzzle.
11
His friends had been driven out of Washington or had taken to
fisticuffs
.
12
At first I found our bouts at
fisticuffs
a severe tax.
13
This decade's mods and rockers don't cluster at Brighton and Hastings for
fisticuffs
.
14
There was passion, there was atmosphere, there were tries and
fisticuffs
.
15
This was good old-fashioned
fisticuffs
of the bloodied nose and blackened eye variety.
16
Intense indeed must be the affection which can thus drive you to
fisticuffs
!
Other examples for "fisticuffs"
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fisticuffs
fisticuff
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
come to fisticuffs
fashioned fisticuffs
resort to fisticuffs
verbal fisticuffs
alone fisticuffs
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Translations for
fisticuffs
Catalan
cops de puny
boxa
pugilisme
Spanish
puñetazos
pelea a puñetazos
boxeo
pugilismo
Portuguese
boxe
pugilismo
Fisticuffs
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Fisticuffs
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