Noun
A fistfight.
Usage- Rare
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Every fifteen or twenty minutes there was a rush to some part, to witness a fisticuff.
This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow—this wandering and tormented thing.
A cuff or blow administered with the fist.
Usage- Obsolete
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The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king.
Verb
To engage in a physical fight.
Usage- Humorous
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Generously scattering a drop of my fortune on an early morning sea breeze. Should have jumped after it. Grabber at life's banquet follows a fortune to doom. As folk fleece and fisticuff in street.
To strike, fight or spar with the fists.
Usage- Obsolete
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Do they fisticuff with thunder-snaggs […]