noun
- fighting with the fists; a fistfight
Usage: informal; often humorous or old-fashioned
Examples
- The two boys settled their argument with fisticuffs behind the school.
- What started as a verbal disagreement quickly escalated to fisticuffs.
- The old western movie featured a classic barroom fisticuffs scene.
- Rather than resort to fisticuffs, they decided to talk it out.
- The referee separated the players before their shoving match turned into fisticuffs.
- His grandfather told stories of settling disputes with fisticuffs in his youth.