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Definition of Prizefighting
1. Noun. (sports) Professional boxing, in which two fighters compete for a prize. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prizefighting
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prizefighting
Literary usage of Prizefighting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1906)
"212, 75 SW 261, 66 LRA 2SO, in answer to the question whether the nee of land or
a building for the maintenance of prizefighting was a nuisance, ..."
2. Wharton's Law-lexicon: Forming an Epitome of the Law of England; and by John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely (1892)
"Prizefighting. Public prizefighting is an affray and an indictable misdemeanour
on the part of both combatants and backers (see Reg. v. Coney, 8 QBD 534, ..."
3. The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: To which is Added The Journal of a Tour to by James Boswell (1900)
"After supper he said, " I am sorry that prizefighting is gone out; ... Prizefighting
made people accustomed not to be alarmed at seeing their own blood, ..."
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