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(sports, uncountable) Ellipsis of armored combat fighting. (a combat sport) [(sports) A gladiatorial combat sport, where medieval recreationists fight each other while fully armored in recreation medieval armor with recreation medieval weapons. Several variations of the sport exist, which include melee combat for last man standing winners, team-versus-team, and one-on-one combat.]
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(sports) a match in the sport of armored combat fighting
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(sports) Alternative spelling of armored combat fight [(sports) a match in the sport of armored combat fighting]
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(martial arts) Training with a punching bag.
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(countable, hunting) A hunt performed in this manner.
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(sports, informal) One who sits in the bleachers.
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(slang) To kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner.
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(colloquial) A person who attends a boxer during a bout.
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A form of exercise that combines aerobics with elements of kick-boxing
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A form of physical workout, combining boxing with aerobic exercise.
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A training match for a fighting dog.
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One who takes part in bushfighting.
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(chiefly military slang) Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
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A person who fights inside a cage.
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The practise of participating in hand-to-hand combat inside of a usually steel cage.
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A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes placed on their feet and are made to fight each other, usually to the death.
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A sport that involves man-to-man combat.
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A form of wrestling, similar to judo, traditionally practised in Cornwall.
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(fighting sports) The person responsible for preventing and treating physical damage to a fighter between rounds of a match.
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(obsolete) A child's game, played with dib bones or stones, throwing them up from one's palm and catching them on the back of the hand.
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A fight between dogs, especially as part of the blood sport of dogfighting.
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(British spelling) Alternative form of dueler [a person who fights a duel]
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A participant in boxing or any martial art.
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(UK) Fighting at soccer games by football hooligans.
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combat using the feet, especially the French system of savate
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A protector or defender; champion, warrior.
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(boxing) Relating to the four forms of professional heavyweight boxing - WBO, WBC, IBF and WBA
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A sports entertainment in which female boxers fight in skimpy outfits.
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(US, slang, derogatory) An employee of the United States Forest Service.
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combat between gladiators
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Obsolete form of gladiator. [(in ancient Rome) A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.]
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swordplay; gladiatorial contest
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(martial arts) Hand-to-hand combat in which both fighters are on the ground, or skill in such combat
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A battle (or a duel) using small arms.
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A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
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Obsolete form of jousting. [A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.]
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(military) A dogfight (aircraft battle) at close quarters.
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(slang) One who defaults on payment of a wager.
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Any one of several types of wrestling, historically practised in Central Asia.
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(historical) The trainer or manager of a team of gladiators.
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(professional wrestling) A Mexican professional wrestler, frequently (but not always) masked
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(by extension) Someone who arranges professional boxing matches.
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(historical) A kind of gladiator, known for wearing a Gallic helmet with the image of a fish.
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One who fights in single combat; a duellist.
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(martial arts) A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
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(boxing, historical) A group of middleweight boxers in the 1940s.
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Alternative form of mirmillo [(historical) A kind of gladiator, known for wearing a Gallic helmet with the image of a fish.]
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Someone who plays octopush.
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(martial arts) A competitor in pankration.
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A person employed on a shoot to pick up dead game.
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(gambling) A selection in a slot machine game that ends the picking bonus.
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(rare) After a career in the sport of boxing.
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Alternative spelling of prizefighter [A professional boxer.]
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A professional sportsman.
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A code of rules governing professional and amateur boxing, published in 1867 and endorsed by the ninth Marquess of Queensberry.
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(historical) A type of gladiator who uses a casting net (a rete or iaculum) as a weapon.
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(historical) A retiarius: a gladiator who fought with a net.
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(boxing) Tactical skill and positioning in the boxing ring.
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Skilled at fighting from familiarity with the boxing ring.
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(historical, Ancient Rome) A Roman gladiator armed with shield, sleeve on right arm, helmet, shoulder-piece, and greave.
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a form of French martial art that involves combinations of punching and kicking moves
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(boxing) The action of practicing moves where the opponent is the boxer's own shadow.
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(boxing, martial arts) To practice moves without an actual opponent, often in front of a mirror.
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A type of outdoor military style game using paintball or similar weapons.
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(uncountable) A street game in which players attempt to flick caps into a series of squares drawn on the ground.
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(UK, slang) A slam-door train.
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A form of martial art in which the goal is throwing one's opponent off balance by means of pushes and pulls, as opposed to incapacitating one's opponent out with kicks and punches.
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A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
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Alternative form of stickfighter [One who competes in stickfighting.]
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A person who regularly fights in the streets
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(obsolete, politics) A blackmailer in politics.
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A technique used in Muay Thai, Sanshou, kickboxing, ITF-style taekwondo and mixed martial arts, which involves bringing the rear leg forward to feign a kick, then snapping the leg back while throwing a cross, resulting in greater power behind the punch.
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(euphemistic) The sport of boxing.
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A fight or duel using swords
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(boxing) the pre-fight measurements made of the combatants
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(obsolete) A gambler; one who throws dice in gambling.
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Alternative form of tic-tac, a sign language used by bookmakers [(Britain) a system of sign language used by bookmakers at racecourses to communicate odds and bets; an associated group of words for each sign]
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Universal Boxing Organization; an organization that arranges boxing championships.
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(US, sports) Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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The sport of boxing performed by participants from white-collar professions, usually without prior experience.
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(archaic) Alternative form of woomera [(Australia) A traditional spearthrower, consisting of a stick with a hooked end, used by First Nations Australians.]
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