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Answer for the clue "Someone who fights (or is fighting) ", 8 letters:
scrapper

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scrapper may refer to: Someone who collects and sells scrap The Scrapper , 1917 short Western film directed by John Ford Scrapper (film) , a 2011 short film Scrapper (2013), independent film starring Michael Beach , Anna Giles and Aidan Gillen Scrapper ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: combatant , battler , belligerent , fighter ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pugilist," 1874, agent noun from scrap (v.2). Later used generally of anyone or anything that tends to put up a fight.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who disposes of scraps. 2 A person who fights doggedly, who exhibits indomitable will.

Usage examples of scrapper.

Well, darn it, could I take that from a slob of a mixed-ale scrapper when it was handed out at the finest kid that ever came from New York?

Pike mopped his brow with the back of his hand and placed the barnacle scrapper carefully on a sawhorse.

They knew that the presence of these Decepticons was an ominous development, for Bonecrusher, Mixmaster, Hook, Scrapper, Long Haul and Scavenger had the potential to come together to form the awesome Decepticon called Devastator!

Zac as they made their way through the maze of alleyways toward the Scrapper camp.

SMS descended on them, tracking down the transient Scrapper camps and leaving wreckage in their wake.

He glanced back over his shoulder in the direction of the Scrapper camp.

Chinese doctor the SMS kept under their protection, stoked on painkillers, head wrapped like some Egyptian mummy in an old horror movie, Rudy Paynter stumbled along the streets of Cemetery Ridge looking for the Scrapper camp.

Crocker, the well-known American welter-weight scrapper, succeeded in stopping Lord Percy Whipple, second son of the Duke of Devizes, better known as the Pride of Old England.

Unfortunately, Finnegan was a much better scrapper than I was, so I always got the worst of it.

Claws was an alley scrapper, a bulky gray cat getting a little long in the fang.

This particular day, however, I just knew Scrapper was heading for the porch.

It was so unusual and out-of-character for Scrapper to do this that it was spine-chilling.

I looked out my office window to see if Scrapper was still there, and he was, still meowing at the door.

Banding together throughout the cities of the world, the Scrappers were constantly on the move, always looking over their shoulders for either the Recycling Squad or the Silver Metal Stompers.

I followed them and one of the Scrappers to the sewer drain over there by the old ironworks plant, right?