Usually means: Fighting with fists, no gloves.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word bare knuckle:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. bare-knuckle: Merriam-Webster
  2. bare-knuckle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bare-knuckle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bare-knuckle, bare-knuckle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bare-knuckle: Vocabulary.com
  6. bare-knuckle: Wordnik
  7. bare-knuckle, bare knuckle: Wiktionary
  8. bare-knuckle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bare-knuckle: Dictionary.com
  10. Bare-knuckle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. bare-knuckle: Rhymezone
  12. bare-knuckle: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bare-knuckle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. bare-knuckle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bare-knuckle: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bare knuckle)

adjective:  Alternative form of bare-knuckle
adjective:  Without boxing gloves
adjective:  Ruthlessly competitive
verb:  Alternative form of bare-knuckle [To box without boxing gloves.]

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