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fighting cock

n. a cock bred and trained for fighting [syn: gamecock]

Usage examples of "fighting cock".

Selecting the right farm walk for a fighting cock is an art, and Omar had done a careful, thorough job.

The distraction fortunately had also attracted the attention of the fighting cock, for if it had charged just then it would have been too bad for Quade.

A mass of smoking flesh and feathers told of the fate of the fighting cock that had attacked him.

Those who looked at Sharpe seemed to show a mixture of surprise and pity at his dowdiness, as though a bedraggled fighting cock had somehow found its way into a peacock's pen.