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bumfight

bumfight noun: a fight between homeless or underprivileged people, sometimes filmed as entertainment.

Noun

bumfight (plural bumfights)

  1. (informal) A fight between homeless or underprivileged people, sometimes filmed as entertainment.
    • Bumfights are "exploiting people that are in dire situations," Lisa Davis, a spokesperson for the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, D.C., told a reporter angrily. "It's completely harmful and it's abusive."2002, Weekly World News, volume 23, number 47, page 19
    • Does he make him compete in a bumfight with the tramp who sits outside Londis? No. Not on St Stephen's Day.2010, Helen Zaltzman, Olly Mann, Answer Me This, page 118

Forms of bumfight

pluralbumfights

Origin of bumfight

From bum + fight, generally in reference to Bumfights, a video series produced by Indecline Films in the early 2000s.

Questions about bumfight

What does bumfight mean?
Bumfight means a fight between homeless or underprivileged people, sometimes filmed as entertainment.
What part of speech is bumfight?
Bumfight is a noun.
What is the plural of bumfight?
The plural of bumfight is bumfights.

Words near bumfight in the dictionary

  1. bumetanide
  2. bumetrizole
  3. bumf
  4. bumfiddle
  5. bumfiddles
  6. bumfight
  7. bumfights
  8. bumfit
  9. bumfluff
  10. bumfluffed
  11. bumfodder

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