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
Traditional cockfighting is still legal in the Philippines.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025
In Mexico, breeders marched against proposed laws to ban cockfighting, bullfighting and other animal blood sports.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023
Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action, describes the United States as “the breeding ground for cockfighting for the world” and says that it supplies “tens and tens of thousands of birds” to 25 countries.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
They had leisure for diversions such as the chase, the breeding and racing of thoroughbred horses, the dance, high play with dice and card, cockfighting, the gallantry of love, and the skill of the rapier.
From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Skinner, Constance Lindsay
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