Usually means: Response to threat: attack or escape.
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We found 7 dictionaries that define the word fight or flight:

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  1. fight-or-flight: Merriam-Webster
  2. fight or flight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fight-or-flight, fight-or-flight: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fight-or-flight, fight or flight: Wiktionary
  5. Fight or Flight (Emily Osment album), Fight or Flight (Heroes), Fight or Flight (Hoobastank album), Fight or Flight (Modern Family), Fight or Flight (Supergirl), Fight or Flight (Turin Brakes EP), Fight or Flight (band), Fight or Flight (disambiguation), Fight or Flight (film), Fight or Flight, Fight-or-flight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. fight-or-flight: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fight-or-flight: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Fight or flight)

noun:  Alternative form of fight-or-flight [All the coordinated physiological responses that the sympathetic nervous system initiates in response to stress or other emergency situations.]

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