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Fisticuffs

Fisticuffs meaning

plural of fisticuff | An impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people. | Bare-knuckled boxing, a form of boxing done without boxing gloves or similar padding.

Example sentences (20)

An incensed Dan insists on a fight, but Smitty refuses to engage in fisticuffs.

Canadians aren't always as polite and mild-mannered as we Yanks imagine, if not necessarily coming to fisticuffs.

Hart waved the men aside to act tough, but she bailed from fisticuffs.

It might sound silly at first, but maybe the answer isn't to come up with a new lightsaber type, but perhaps it's really going back to basics with some good old-fashioned fisticuffs.

We soon see Elvis embarking on more traditional spy quests, like exchanging fisticuffs with a few goons, fighting off ninjas with his partner, and flying around with his very own jetpack.

We start with the fisticuffs!

When other characters were playing around with fire and ice, she was winning bouts with military tech and fisticuffs.

After back and forth fisticuffs, Danielson landed another Busaiku Knee.

However, Ray J’s cache in the game almost took a literal hit after he allegedly almost got into some fisticuffs with three of reportedly breaking up the beef.

In a new behind-the-scenes featurette for the movie, the cast and crew explore exactly how director Dev Patel found the balance between delivering audiences authentic fisticuffs with polished choreography.

While the series features explosions, shootouts, fisticuffs and car chases, Francesca Sloane, who co-created the series with Glover and serves as showrunner, says this new “Mr.

At one point, one of the guys, his wig actually came off and it came to fisticuffs.

More fisticuffs came at 8:59 when Robert Bortuzzo and Jarred Tinordi squared off at center ice.

The mayor himself had to break up what the grappling gentlemen would have called "fisticuffs" back in their day, and the RCMP arrived to warn both men to grow up, security video captured the contretemps (which would later be used as evidence).

Assaults, fisticuffs, sharp weapon attacks, appear more often in the news even though the percent of these crimes may not have changed.

As someone who used to document Edelman’s proclivity to be willing to engage in fisticuffs at the drop of a hat, this version of Edelman had not been seen in years.

Essentially it’s about the “struggle, the successes, the betrayals, the egos, the insecurities, the affairs, the divorces, the fisticuffs, the friendships broken” that defined the formation of Leftfield Theatre and its first play.

In the flashback sequence, the two challenge each other to fisticuffs, and what follows is Cliff more than holding his own and then throwing Lee into a car door just as the fight is broken up.

Parents not put off by some harsh fisticuffs, Adonis and Bianca’s jumping of the marital gun and the occasional S-word may consider giving the green light to mature teens.

Rask was not the only unlikely member of the Bruins to engage in some fisticuffs, as David Pastrnak immediately challenged Dan Girardi to a fight after Girardi delivered a clean but heavy hit on Patrice Bergeron in the neutral zone in the third period.