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pick a fight

/ˌpɪk ə ˈfaɪt/

pick a fight verb: to deliberately provoke someone into fighting.

Verb

pick a fight (third-person singular simple present picks a fight, present participle picking a fight, simple past and past participle picked a fight)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To deliberately provoke someone into fighting.
    Synonyms:
    pick a quarrel

pick a fight meaning in Kannada and Vietnamese

pick a fight in Kannada

ಜಗಳ ತೆಗೆ, ಜಗಳ ಹೂಡು

pick a fight in Vietnamese

Translations
cà khịa

Synonyms of pick a fight

Forms of pick a fight

third-person singular presentpicks a fight
present participlepicking a fight
past participlepicked a fight
pastpicked a fight
alternative formpick fights

Questions about pick a fight

What does pick a fight mean?
Pick a fight means to deliberately provoke someone into fighting.
What is pick a fight in Kannada?
Pick a fight in Kannada is ಜಗಳ ತೆಗೆ, ಜಗಳ ಹೂಡು. See Pick a fight meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is pick a fight?
Pick a fight is a verb.
How do you pronounce pick a fight?
Pick a fight is pronounced /ˌpɪk ə ˈfaɪt/ (US).
What is the past tense of pick a fight?
The past tense of pick a fight is picked a fight.

Words near pick a fight in the dictionary

  1. picinniny
  2. pick
  3. pick 'em
  4. pick 'n' mix
  5. pick 'n' mixes
  6. pick a fight
  7. pick a hole in someone's coat
  8. pick a lane
  9. pick a quarrel
  10. pick and choose
  11. pick and mix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pick a fight (page history and authors); pick a fight (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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