bumfight

plural bumfights

1. informalA fight between homeless or underprivileged people, sometimes filmed as entertainment.

   Does he make him compete in a bumfight with the tramp who sits outside Londis? No. Not on St Stephen's Day.

   2010, Helen Zaltzman, Olly Mann, Answer Me This, page 118

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   Bumfights are "exploiting people that are in dire situations," Lisa Davis, a spokesperson for the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, D.C., told a reporter angrily. "It's completely harmful and it's abusive."

   2002, Weekly World News, volume 23, number 47, page 19

   His clothes were stained with blood, torn, and rumpled. He looked like the loser of a bum-fight. Not to mention the police were probably looking for him by now.

   2015, Tim Bohn, The Old Blood: Legacy of Magic: Book I

   These confrontations – 'bumfights' – are filmed and shown on the Internet. Street fighting even enjoys a popularity which is difficult to measure but which nowadays boasts its own sites on the web.

   2018, Dominique Bodin, Luc Robene, Sport and Violence: Rethinking Elias