prizefighting

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prizefighting

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See prizefight. Originally Prize Playing, with play referring to sparring, a practice fight. By surface analysis, prize + fighting.

noun prizefightings

  1. uncountable, usually Professional boxing, in which two fighters compete for a prize. OF all the people gathered on Ninth Avenue Wednesday night to watch Marc Jacobs's spring 2003 runway show, I'm fairly sure I was the only one thinking about prizefighting.

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@misc{prizefighting_2026,
  title = {prizefighting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prizefighting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}