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barfight en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈbɑː(ɹ)faɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

From bar + fight.

Meanings

1. A fight that takes place in a bar.
   • Later he will knock the teeth out of a small black boy; abet a grotesquely fat, lizard-skinned “preacher” in the casual abduction, sodomizing and murder of the same child — “abet” him by shooting the child’s father in the throat; soon afterward choke and drown the depraved preacher himself; choke to death an elderly half-wit and then burn his house; lacerate a man’s mouth with broken glass in a barfight, and ogle Becky Thatcher’s braided pigtails from behind. 2007 March 11, Ron Powers, “Unsivilized”, in New York Times:

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