Usually means: Resist or counteract an attack.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word fight back:

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  1. fight back: Merriam-Webster
  2. fight back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fight back: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fight back: Vocabulary.com
  5. fight-back: Wordnik
  6. fight back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fight back: Wiktionary
  8. fight back: Dictionary.com
  9. Fight Back (Discharge EP), Fight Back: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. fight back: Rhymezone
  11. fight back: FreeDictionary.org
  12. fight back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. fight back: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. fight back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fight back: Idioms

(Note: See fight_backs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fight back)

verb:  (intransitive) to defend oneself by fighting.
verb:  (intransitive) to counterattack; to resist an attack.
verb:  (transitive) to repress; to struggle to repress.
verb:  (intransitive, in sports) to overturn a losing deficit.

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