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Dogfight

noun

A fiercely disputed contest. "A real dogfight for third place" , "A prolonged dogfight over their rival bids for the contract"

Disorderly fighting. Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle.

An aerial engagement between fighter planes.

A violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling).

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"Dogfight" Quotes from Famous Books

... visions of Madeline, by looking out a visionary for themselves. They got admission into the convent for a certain Sister Anne of the Nativity, a girl of sanguine, hysteric temperament, frantic at need and half-mad, so far at least as to believe in her own lies. A kind of dogfight was got up between the two. They besmeared each other with false charges. Anne saw the Devil quite naked, by Madeline's side. Madeline swore to seeing Anne at the Sabbath, along with the Lady Superior, the Mother-Assistant, and the Mother of the Novices. ...

— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet

... call special services in a church a dogfight, I hope," put in Tilly Holmes's father, his eyebrows bristling. Mr. Holmes was a Baptist and had no intention of attending the Methodist meetings, but he felt he ought to stand for the principle of the thing, especially as Tremendous K. ...

— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith

... deadest game of draw—nothing excitin', no hands, an' broke even. Played a rubber of cribbage with Skiff Mitchell for the drinks, an' now I'm that languid for somethin' doin' that I'm perambulatin' the streets on the chance of seein' a dogfight, or a argument, ...

— Smoke Bellew • Jack London

... the Yukon; but he merely went ashore at the first landing and trotted back up the bank. We couldn't sell him, we couldn't kill him (both Steve and I had tried), and nobody else was able to kill him. He bore a charmed life. I've seen him go down in a dogfight on the main street with fifty dogs on top of him, and when they were separated, he'd appear on all his four legs, unharmed, while two of the dogs that had been on top of ...

— Lost Face • Jack London

Words linked to "Dogfight" : arrange, combat, scrap, battle, competition, tussle, stage, rough-and-tumble, fighting, contest, hassle, conflict, scuffle, fight, engagement