From cock + fight.
cockfight (plural cockfights)
- A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
- Synonym: (archaic) cockmatch
contest
- Arabic: مصارعة الديوك
- Armenian: աքլորակռիվ (hy) (akʻlorakṙiv)
- Assamese: কুকুৰা যুঁজ (kukura zũz)
- Azerbaijani: xoruz döyüşü
- Basque: oilar-borroka
- Bengali: মোরগের লড়াই (bn) (mōrger loṛai)
- Bikol Central: bulang (bcl)
- Burmese: ကြက်တိုက်ခြင်း (kraktuikhkrang:)
- Catalan: baralla de galls f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鬥雞 / 斗鸡 (zh) (dòujī)
- Dutch: hanengevecht (nl)
- Esperanto: batalkoko, kokluktado
- Finnish: kukkotappelu (fi)
- French: combat de coqs (fr) m
- German: Hahnenkampf (de) m
- Hebrew: קרב תרנגולים (he)
- Hungarian: kakasviadal (hu)
- Indonesian: sabung ayam (id)
- Italian: combattimento tra galli m, combattimento fra galli m
- Japanese: 闘鶏 (ja) (とうけい, tōkei), 蹴合 (けあい, keai), 鶏合 (とりあわせ, toriawase; にわとりあわせ, niwatoriawase)
- Kannada: ಕೋಳಿ ಅಂಕ (kn) (kōḷi aṅka)
- Khmer: លេងជល់មាន់ (leeŋ cʊəl moan)
- Korean: 투계(鬪鷄) (ko) (tugye), 닭싸움 (dakssaum)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: sabung ayam (ms)
- Malayalam: കോഴിപ്പോര് (ml) (kōḻippōrŭ)
- Norwegian: hanekamp
- Odia: ଗଞ୍ଜା ଲଢ଼େଇ (gañjā laṛhei)
- Polish: walka kogutów f
- Portuguese: rinha (pt) f, rinha de galo f
- Russian: петуши́ный бой m (petušínyj boj), бойцовый петух (bojcovyj petux)
- Serbo-Croatian: borba pijetlova f
- Spanish: pelea de gallos f
- Swedish: tuppfäktning (sv) c
- Tagalog: sabong
- Tamil: சேவல் சண்டை (cēval caṇṭai)
- Telugu: కోడిపందెం (te) (kōḍipandeṁ)
- Thai: ไก่ชน (th)
- Turkish: horoz dövüşü (tr)
- Volapük: higokakomip
- Welsh: gêm geiliog f
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cockfight (third-person singular simple present cockfights, present participle cockfighting, simple past and past participle cockfought)
- To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
1994, Charlise Lyles, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?, page 245:I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.
participate in a cockfighting event
