Definition of Dogfights

1. Noun. (plural of dogfight) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of dogfight) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dogfights

1. dogfight [v] - See also: dogfight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogfights

dogedoms
dogeless
dogend
dogends
doges
dogeship
dogeships
dogey
dogeys
dogface
dogfaces
dogfight
dogfighter
dogfighters
dogfighting
dogfights (current term)
dogfingt
dogfish
dogfishes
dogfood
dogfooded
dogfooding
dogfoods
dogfought
dogfox
dogfoxes
dogfur
dogge
dogged
doggeder

Literary usage of Dogfights

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"Two first-class dogfights have come off on Main Street, attracting large and enthusiastic audiences. The last one ended in a free fight, and the man who ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"... eye marks with evident disapproval the flower-beds that bloom over spots in the court-yard that in his day were sacred to dogfights and pistol shooting. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"It is said that the police experience no difficulty in stopping dogfights, " ping-masses," or rows in the lowest taverns; they have but to cry, ..."

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