There's a cockfight in the courtyard.
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Cockfight
//ˈkɒkˌfaɪt//
Synonyms for "cockfight" (22 found)
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2 entriesis a
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7 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 40 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مصارعة الديوك noun (contest)
Armenian
1 entries- աքլորակռիվ noun (contest)
Assamese
1 entries- কুকুৰা যুঁজ noun (contest)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- xoruz döyüşü noun (contest)
Basque
1 entries- oilar-borroka noun (contest)
Bengali
1 entries- মোরগের লড়াই noun (contest)
Bikol Central
1 entries- bulang noun (contest)
Burmese
1 entries- ကြက်တိုက်ခြင်း noun (contest)
Catalan
1 entries- baralla de galls noun (contest)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 鬥雞 /斗鸡 noun (contest)
- 鬥雞 /斗鸡 verb (participate in a cockfighting event)
Dutch
1 entries- hanengevecht noun (contest)
Esperanto
2 entries- batalkoko noun (contest)
- kokluktado noun (contest)
Finnish
2 entries- kukkotappelu noun (contest)
- osallistua kukkotappeluun verb (participate in a cockfighting event)
French
1 entries- combat de coqs noun (contest)
German
1 entries- Hahnenkampf noun (contest)
Hebrew
1 entries- קרב תרנגולים noun (contest)
Hungarian
1 entries- kakasviadal noun (contest)
Indonesian
1 entries- sabung ayam noun (contest)
Italian
2 entries- combattimento fra galli noun (contest)
- combattimento tra galli noun (contest)
Japanese
3 entries- 蹴合 noun (contest)
- 闘鶏 noun (contest)
- 鶏合 noun (contest)
Kannada
1 entries- ಕೋಳಿ ಅಂಕ noun (contest)
Khmer
1 entries- លេងជល់មាន់ noun (contest)
Korean
4 entries- 닭싸움 noun (contest)
- 투계 noun (contest)
- 닭싸움하다 verb (participate in a cockfighting event)
- 투계(鬪鷄)하다 verb (participate in a cockfighting event)
Malay
1 entries- sabung ayam noun (contest)
Malayalam
1 entries- കോഴിപ്പോര് noun (contest)
Norwegian
1 entries- hanekamp noun (contest)
Odia
1 entries- ଗଞ୍ଜା ଲଢ଼େଇ noun (contest)
Polish
1 entries- walka kogutów noun (contest)
Portuguese
2 entries- rinha noun (contest)
- rinha de galo noun (contest)
Russian
2 entries- бойцовый петух noun (contest)
- петуши́ный бой noun (contest)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- borba pijetlova noun (contest)
Spanish
1 entries- pelea de gallos noun (contest)
Swedish
1 entries- tuppfäktning noun (contest)
Tagalog
1 entries- sabong noun (contest)
Tamil
1 entries- சேவல் சண்டை noun (contest)
Telugu
1 entries- కోడిపందెం noun (contest)
Thai
1 entries- ไก่ชน noun (contest)
Turkish
1 entries- horoz dövüşü noun (contest)
Volapük
1 entries- higokakomip noun (contest)
Welsh
1 entries- gêm geiliog noun (contest)
Sample 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.
Source: tatoeba (12197144)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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