The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fighting \Fight"ing\, a.
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Qualified for war; fit for battle.
An host of fighting men.
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Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.
--Pope.A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.]
Fighting crab (Zo["o]l.), the fiddler crab.
Fighting fish (Zo["o]l.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish ( Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.
Usage examples of "a fighting chance".
All she needed was to say two little words, and her ranch had a fighting chance, but God help her, the words wouldn't slide past her lips.
If the venom entered the bison anywhere near the head or face, it was invariably fatal, but if it struck a leg, there was a fighting chance that the poison would be absorbed before it reached the heart, but the bison would thereafter be lame in that leg, its nerves and muscles half destroyed by the venom.
In a teeming and sophisticated city where foreigners were no novelty, he had a fighting chance.
If we failed to exchange prisoners on any terms, then we still had to: (a) win the war, (b) do so in a way that gave us a fighting chance to rescue our own people, or (c) -- might as well admit it -- die trying and lose.
This law also gives some of the creatures a fighting chance, and every so often a hunter loses in a battle with a boar or bear, which keeps spurious adventurers out.
There may be one or more here now who knows the Eyrie and would so give me a fighting chance to save us.