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cockfight

[ kok-fahyt ]

noun

  1. a fight between specially bred gamecocks usually fitted with spurs.


cockfight

/ ˈ°ìÉ’°ìËŒ´Ú²¹Éª³Ù /

noun

  1. a fight between two gamecocks fitted with sharp metal spurs
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Derived Forms

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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cockfight1

First recorded in 1485–95; cock 1 + fight
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Example Sentences

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Thirty-three spectators at the cockfight were detained and about 250 roosters were discovered, along with a fighting ring, a scoreboard and steel talons, according to officials.

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Another person involved in the cockfights told that source that he and and another individual purchased their fighting roosters from Oklahoma and they were shipped to California by plane.

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One villager insisted to police that he had to remain because the 40 roosters he had bred for cockfights might be stolen if he left.

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Borge was indicted on 11 felony charges including murder and attempted murder stemming from the April 15 shooting that wounded three other people at the illegal cockfight in a rural and remote neighborhood outside Honolulu.

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One shooting victim told police there were 100 people at the cockfight, while another told police there were 200.

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