cockfighting
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He'd been up all night on a tear - working out, listening to music, practising Filipino stick fighting, pacing the floor.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2022
Boutella trained intensely to become Ahmanet, taking up boxing and stick fighting in preparation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2017
And Zulu stick fighting appears in written history nearly four millennia later as warfare training for Northern Nguni men in 19th-century Southern Africa.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2015
She trounces her male peers in stick fighting and can recite Shakespeare.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2013
Like Maculele in Brazil, stick fighting was a contest, but also a way enslaved people could express themselves.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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