Fisticuff [noun]
Definition of Fisticuff:
strike, bump
Synonyms of Fisticuff:
● Blow
● Bat
● Shot
● Punch
● Swing
● Lick
● Tap
● Clip
● Butt
● Slap
● Collision
● Stroke
● Rap
● Glance
● Zap
● Belt
● Impact
● Chop
● Pat
● Swipe
● Sock
● Swat
● Slog
● Clash
● Knock
● Buffet
● Whammy
● Bang
● Clout
● Wallop
● Paste
● Box
● Smash
● Plunk
● Shock
● Smack
● Spank
● Cuff
● Whop
● Uppercut
● Zinger
● Bonk
● Roundhouse
● One-two punch
● Bell-ringer
Opposite/Antonyms of Fisticuff:
● Failure
● Flop
● Praise
● Loss
Sentence/Example of Fisticuff:
There was a children's party, and two boys had a fisticuff over you.
If his fairy-godmother had prearranged this fisticuff, she could not have done anything better so far as Killigrew was concerned.
An English traveler came upon two men engaged in a fisticuff fight.
The boys had constant fisticuff fights, and the master enjoyed and encouraged them.
If the end is something else, a hearty fisticuff may be the means of realizing it.
But this was no cadet fisticuff; it was a serious matter, and I needed a friend.
Charles Rush was kind and charitable in disposition, but when exigencies required, would not decline a fisticuff.
If many disagreeable occupations, hunger and an occasional fisticuff, may be classed as adventure, then I have had my run of it.
He went so far as to admit to himself that he would have liked nothing better than a fisticuff.
In a fisticuff or a rough-and-tumble fight, he was one of the most formidable men of the region in which he lived.