cockfight

plural cockfights

1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

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   This was a very hard problem; and the Rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay Rajah can be expected to think, but could not solve it; and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke and chew betel with his favourite wife, and eat scarcely anything; and even when he went to the cock-fight did not seem to care whether his best birds won or lost.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 278

   Synonyms: cockmatch

present singular third person cockfights · participle present cockfighting · participle past cockfought · past cockfought

1. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.

   I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.

   1994, Charlise Lyles, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?, page 245