Meaning

2 senses
  1. A fight between combatants armed with knives.

    fighting with knives

  2. A dogfight (aircraft battle) at close quarters.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. You don't bring a gun to a knife fight.

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  2. Ziri used his knife to fight the hyena off.

  3. He used a seat belt and a knife to fight off the angry brown snake.

Forms

plural: knife fights
Singularknife fight
Pluralknife fights

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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