dogfighting
See also: dog-fighting and dog fighting
English
Alternative forms
- dog fighting
- dog-fighting
Noun
dogfighting (uncountable)
- A blood sport in which dogs fight with one another
- Dogfighting is illegal in most countries.
- (military, aviation) Close combat between two military aircraft
- 1972, February, “Kevin V. Brown”, in Space-Age Dogfighting, page 74:
- Here, in fighter-pilot language, you're taught the real essential — dogfighting, man-against-man, plane-against-plane — and in a way they never taught us.
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Related terms
- dogfight
- dogfighter
- cockfighting
- bullfighting
Verb
dogfighting
- present participle of dogfight