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cockfights

cockfights is the plural of cockfight.

Meaning of cockfight

Noun

cockfight (plural cockfights)

  1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
    • This was a very hard problem; and the Rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay Rajah can be expected to think, but could not solve it; and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke and chew betel with his favourite wife, and eat scarcely anything; and even when he went to the...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 278
    Synonyms:
    cockmatch

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Questions about cockfights

What is cockfights the plural of?
Cockfights is the plural of cockfight.

Words near cockfights in the dictionary

  1. cockfighter
  2. cockfighters
  3. cockfighting
  4. cockfighting pit
  5. cockfightings
  6. cockfights
  7. cockfish
  8. cockfished
  9. cockfishes
  10. cockfishing
  11. cockflesh

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