Fighting with the fists

• Hand-to-hand combat?
• A fight with bare fists
• Fighting with dukes?
• Doubt about chopped ice in packs for boxing
• Brawl ingredients
• Fighting with punches

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fight with bare fists [syn: fistfight , slugfest ] fighting with the fists [syn: boxing , pugilism ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, fisty cuffes , from fist (n.) + cuff (n.) "a blow" (see cuff (v.2)), with the form perhaps in imitation of handiwork . Related: Fisticuff .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ There was a good deal of fisticuffs . ▪ When his mind's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there.