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bar fight

bar fight is the alternative form of barfight.

Meaning of barfight

Noun

barfight (plural barfights)

  1. A fight that takes place in a bar.
    • Later he will knock the teeth out of a small black boy; abet a grotesquely fat, lizard-skinned “preacher” in the casual abduction, sodomizing and murder of the same child — “abet” him by shooting the child’s father in the throat; soon afterward choke and drown the depraved preacher himself; choke...2007 March 11, Ron Powers, “Unsivilized”, in New York Times

Forms of bar fight

pluralbar fights

Questions about bar fight

What is bar fight the alternative form of?
Bar fight is the alternative form of barfight.

Words near bar fight in the dictionary

  1. bar ends
  2. bar exam
  3. bar examination
  4. bar examinations
  5. bar exams
  6. bar fight
  7. bar fights
  8. bar fine
  9. bar fines
  10. bar flies
  11. bar fly

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