There's a cockfight in the courtyard.
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Cockfight
/ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/
Synonyms for "cockfight" (28 found)
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Noun(5 words)
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8 entriesanimal contestarena boutblood sportillegal cockfightingpolemicring contestrooster fightingverbal sparring
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11 entriesanimal crueltyblood sportcockfight arenacockfight ringcockfighting arenacockfighting matchcockfighting ringillegal activityillegal cockfightingorganized cockfightingrooster fighting
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2 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
A Pound, Virginia man, who brought a minor to a cockfight, distributed hydrocodone and conspired with others to facilitate cockfighting, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
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This was a very hard problem; and the Rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay Rajah can be expected to think, but could not solve it; and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke and chew betel with his favourite wife, and eat scarcely anything; and even when he went to the cock-fight did not seem to care whether his best birds won or lost.
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I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.
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