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cockfighting
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Word definitions for cockfighting in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes placed on their feet and are made to fight each other, usually to the death. vb. (present participle of cockfight English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockfighting \Cock"fight`ing\, n. The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.
Usage examples of cockfighting.
Season, forced there by his mama, while Riley would be left behind, with his cockfighting business bringing in money hand over fist?
But add those nasty little can-openers, and cockfighting becomes a macho life-or-death spectacle.
Always controversial, cockfighting was outlawed in Great Britain and Canada.
In some places, cockfighting remains legal provided that the birds are not fitted with sharpened spurs, and that no gambling is allowed.
The argument from animal-rights sissies is that cockfighting is cruel, even sadistic.
One course passed after another, the men talking about hunting, cockfighting and fowling guns, Sophie talking about clothes and music.
In peacetime this was expressed through their pursuit of bloodsports - from cockfighting to hunting with spear and bow.
In southern cockfighting circles, or anywhere in the world where cockers get together for chicken talk, his name is respected as the man who bred the Middleton Gray.
The Florida cockfighting season didn't start officially until Thanksgiving Day, when an opening derby was held in Lake Worth.
As I recalled, the last time I had seen her was at a banquet held following the International Cockfighting Tournament in Saint Petersburg.