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fightbacks

fightbacks is the plural of fightback.

Meaning of fightback

Noun

fightback (plural fightbacks)

  1. A campaign of resistance; a counterattack.
    • The gay movement is in retreat as evidenced in the rise of anti-gay attacks and and ^([sic]) the success of anti-gay legislation. One only needs to read the Gay Community News to realize the severity of the anti-gay offensive. The fightback to this anti-gay offensive has been weak and disoriented....1981 December 12, Steve Rose, “Some People's Congress”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 4

Questions about fightbacks

What is fightbacks the plural of?
Fightbacks is the plural of fightback.

Words near fightbacks in the dictionary

  1. fightability
  2. fightable
  3. fightah
  4. fightahs
  5. fightback
  6. fightbacks
  7. fightcha
  8. fighted
  9. fighter
  10. fighter ace
  11. fighter aces

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