Usually means: Cruel sport using bears, dogs.
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  1. bearbaiting: Merriam-Webster
  2. bearbaiting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bearbaiting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bearbaiting: Wiktionary
  5. bearbaiting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. bearbaiting: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. bearbaiting: Dictionary.com
  8. Bearbaiting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. bearbaiting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bearbaiting: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bearbaiting)

▸ noun:  A blood sport in which dogs are set upon a chained bear
▸ noun:  (figurative) A bloodthirsty free for all.

Similar:
baiting, rat-baiting, bait dog, ratting, bear banger, bullbaiting, attack dog, ursicide, bloodsport, rat pit, more...

Opposite:
bullbaiting, cockfighting, dogfighting

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Similar:
baiting, rat-baiting, bait dog, ratting, bear banger, bullbaiting, attack dog, ursicide, bloodsport, rat pit, more...

Opposite:
bullbaiting, cockfighting, dogfighting



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