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bareknuckled

bareknuckled is the alternative form of bare-knuckled.

Meaning of bare-knuckled

Adjective

bare-knuckled (comparative more bare-knuckled, superlative most bare-knuckled)

  1. Without boxing gloves
    • Frank Slavin, who fought both bare-knuckled and gloved bouts, was the heavyweight champion of Australia and boxed in the United States, Canada and England.2000, Murray Phillips, From Sidelines to Centre Field, →ISBN
  2. Ruthlessly competitive
    • His return – armed with a set peppered with Clash classics such as 'London Calling' and 'White Man In Hammersmith Palais' – had the old bare-knuckled punks from 1977 literally in tears.1999, Sue Welfare, Off the Record, →ISBN, page 279

Forms of bareknuckled

comparativemore bareknuckled
superlativemost bareknuckled

Questions about bareknuckled

What is bareknuckled the alternative form of?
Bareknuckled is the alternative form of bare-knuckled.

Words near bareknuckled in the dictionary

  1. Bareilles
  2. Bareilleses
  3. Bareilly
  4. bareish
  5. bareknuckle
  6. bareknuckled
  7. bareknuckling
  8. Barela
  9. bareland
  10. barelands
  11. Barelas

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