Meaning

2 senses
  1. A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.

    The two bi-planes swirled around each other like angry wasps in a violent dogfight.

    Luftkampf

  2. A fight between dogs, especially as part of the blood sport of dogfighting.

    Hundekampf

    a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling)

Examples

1 sentences
  1. This aircraft is capable to dogfight and bomb at the same time.

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Translations

6 languages
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By meaning 2
fight between military aircraft:
fight between dogs:

Origin

From dog + fight.

From dog + fight.

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Forms

plural: dogfights
Singulardogfight
Pluraldogfights

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relateddogfighter

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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