cockfight

Etymology

cock + fight

noun

  1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

verb

  1. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
    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. 1994, Charlise Lyles, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?, page 245

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