fighting word
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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We was fighting word counts, so a lot of my essay got chopped up.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
The main target of its critique is also the principal object of its affection, which we might call — using a name that has lately become something of a fighting word — cinema.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
Then she turned the case over and spied a fighting word: Soul, short for SoulCycle, a popular chain of cycling studios in New York and Los Angeles.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2012
"Assembled" is a fighting word in the truck in- dustry because companies that machine most of their own parts look down their noses at the assemblers, terming their own product "manufactured."
From Time Magazine Archive
"In some communities that would be thought a fighting word," he returned.
From Ladies Must Live by Alice Duer Miller
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