fisticuff
noun
a cuff or blow with the fist.
fisticuffer
-
a word derived from
fisticuff.
Example Sentences
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How to become a champion is, for an ambitious fisticuffer, by no means the only problem of his profession.
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Her brother, Billy, was a fisticuffer who claimed the lightweight championship of Europe.
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Fred Penn, Omaha fisticuffer, gave one day last week half a pint of his own blood to save his mother's life in a transfusion operation.
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Primo Camera, gigantic Italian fisticuffer, heard a fire alarm ring near the Park Plaza, his Manhattan headquarters.
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Most spectacular prospector-tycoon is Jack Hammell, a onetime professional fisticuffer from the mining camps of California who quit a good brokerage house job in Manhattan to head for the Klondike.
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