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Meanings of gamecocks in inglês

russo
птичьи бои
português
briga de galos
espanhol
gallero
catalão
lluites de galls
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Blood sport.

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briga de galos

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

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Examples for "cockfight"
Examples for "cockfight"
1
Tulare officials are investigating, and no arrests were made at the cockfight.
The Irish Times
2
It's also crude, exploitative and more gleefully gory than your average cockfight.
The Irish Times
3
In another corner of the square, a native cockfight had started.
White Hunter, Black Heart
4
Writer visits Tijuana to see musician Juan Gabriel perform in a cockfight arena.
The new yorker
5
To demur at death at a cockfight would have been hypocritical.
The prince of frogtown
Usage of gamecocks in inglês
1
I've seed 'em at seventy, an' shufflin' about peart as Marse Clarence's gamecocks.
The Crisis — Complete
2
There were four ungainly, monstrous birds like oversized Cornish Game gamecocks pecking at him.
Operation: Outer Space
3
And Monsieur Leon, perchance you will make a bid, although they are not gamecocks.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
4
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...
5
The bugles called to each other like brazen gamecocks.
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
6
The Vinicius are good soldiers, but still better gamecocks.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
7
Hers were the roosts for the gamecocks.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
8
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
9
Fed up, by God, like gamecocks.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
10
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
11
Children and dogs squat by the mud stoops and gamecocks flap and settle in the branches of the fruit trees.
Blood Meridian
12
But what are these goings-on? said the Colonel, staring at young Mr. Colfax, rigid as one of his own gamecocks.
The Crisis — Complete
13
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
14
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
15
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
16
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