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dogfighting

alt. 1 A blood sport in which dogs fight with one another 2 (context military aviation English) Close combat between two military aircraft n. 1 A blood sport in which dogs fight with one another 2 (context military aviation English) Close combat between two military aircraft vb. (present participle of dogfight English)

Usage examples of "dogfighting".

I propose alternative sentencingone that would make dogfighting less of a spectator sport and more of a true macho test.

The GD engineers had also thrown in an alphabet soup of new dogfighting technologies.