Fighting (Tank album)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Disposed to loud disagreements and fighting
(2) Engaged in war
"Belligerent (or warring) nations"
"A fighting war"
noun
(3) The act of fighting; any contest or struggle
"A fight broke out at the hockey game"
"There was fighting in the streets"
"The unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
fighting
- engaged in war or other conflict
- apt to provoke a fight
- 1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26,
- It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
- 1947, Hold That Lion! (film),
- Them's fighting words in my country!
- 2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 1576752372, page xi,
- Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.
- 1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26,