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
The reemergence of cockfighting as an issue in the Oklahoma Capitol is frustrating opponents who, until recently, considered the matter long settled.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024
Such conviction exists in stark contrast with the state of cockfighting in the country today.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Bullbaiting and cockfighting were no more peculiar to this neighbourhood than parson-pelting or woman ducking at Coventry, where the pillory and ducking-stool were in use long after they had been put aside in Birmingham.
From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.
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