bare knuckle

comparative more bare knuckle · superlative most bare knuckle

1. Alternative form of bare-knuckle.
   1. Without boxing gloves

      I crave the softness of human touch, rather than the bone-crushing feel of bare knuckle fighting.

      2008, Peter Hall, Do You Want to Go to Jail Today?, →ISBN, page 142

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      As a former four-time bare knuckle UFC veteran, and MMA veteran Hall of Fame coach of the year, I know they are effective and valuable to any person as a form of self defense, whether experienced or novice.

      2008, Waysun "Johnny" Tsai, Paula Lazarz, Practical Kung-Fu Street Defense, →ISBN

      The skill demonstrated in, for example, bare knuckle boxing is not a compelling reason to accept the risk of permanent damage to oneself or another.

      2012, Craig Paterson, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Natural Law Ethics Approach, →ISBN

   2. Ruthlessly competitive

      This raises a third and final question: How should basic research be saved in a world of bare knuckle competition?

      2012, Christian Schierenbeck, Fixing Higher Education, →ISBN

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      But aggressive management maneuvers like that were missing from the paper's speculations (10/25/95) about labor's return to "bare knuckle tactics."

      1996, Extra! - Volumes 9-10, page 6

      Indeed, to understand airline predation, one might ask Vanguard, Sun Jet International and Western Pacific (all named in the case as suffering from American's actions) whether they felt the sting of that bare knuckle competition.

      2018, Peter Forsyth, Competition versus Predation in Aviation Markets, →ISBN

present singular third person bare knuckles · participle present bare knuckling · participle past bare knuckled · past bare knuckled

1. alternativeAlternative form of bare-knuckle.

   Let 'um come out to play in the alley and we'll bare knuckle the bastards to hell and back.

   1990, Margaret Skinner, Old Jim Canaan: a novel, page 56

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   Lately I'm bare knuckling again, you know no man can take me, I dare say you'll be much the same.

   2005, John Lucas, Poetry: The Nottingham Collection, →ISBN, page 123