Fights with, in the hills

• Gits in a scrap (with)
• Scraps in the backwoods
• Gets down and dirty with
• Grapples with, slangily
• Grapples with, as a critter
• Gets down 'n' dirty
• Fights without punchin'
• Grapples, in the sticks
• Struggles with, as a critter

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vb. (en-third-person singular of: rassle)