cockfighting
Americannoun
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Following Reconstruction, Black people staged formal card games and cockfighting events, allowing participants to network while acquiring small but quick bursts of cash as economic opportunity languished.
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026
After then-US Senator John McCain labelled it "human cockfighting" and led a campaign to ban the UFC, its events were consigned to small markets.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024
In Mexico, breeders marched against proposed laws to ban cockfighting, bullfighting and other animal blood sports.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023
Abraham Lincoln was given the nickname Honest Abe after he displayed impartiality as a cockfighting judge.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Was his confounding two mean proportionals with one mean proportional found twice over a trick of the same intent? if so, it beats cockfighting.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
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