cockfight

American  

[kok-fahyt] / ˈkɒkˌfaɪt /

noun

1. a fight between specially bred gamecocks usually fitted with spurs.

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cockfight British  

/ ˈkɒkˌfaɪt /

noun

1. a fight between two gamecocks fitted with sharp metal spurs

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Other Word Forms

• cockfighting noun

Etymology

Origin of cockfight

First recorded in 1485–95; cock ¹ + fight

Example Sentences

A 1770 cockfight between Revolutionary patriot Timothy Matlack of Philadelphia and a Loyalist New Yorker, James DeLancey, ended in a brawl that carried more political overtones than today’s Phillies-Mets melees.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2018

The site of the cockfight was a dirt path in the ravine aptly known as the Barranca del Muerto.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2015

Squaring up for a light-hearted cockfight with the admiral on his column, Fritsch's sculpture is a strutting Napoleon giving Nelson the bird.

From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2013

And his camera tends to linger: on a cockfight, a pair of lonely women in pageant costumes dancing, on a 10-year-old boy blowing fire at stoplights for small change.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2011

So the situation went on the same way for another six months until that tragic Sunday when José Arcadio Buendía won a cockfight from Prudencio Aguilar.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez