Phrase Hound found 84 phrases and 50 compound words that contain fight. The most common are listed below. Open fight in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 84
- fight backTo defend oneself by fighting.
- pick a fightTo deliberately provoke someone into fighting.
- fight-or-flightAll the coordinated physiological responses that the sympathetic nervous system initiates in response to stress or other emergency situations.
- fight offTo succeed in defeating a challenge, or an attack.
- fight the tapeTo make a trade contrary to the overall tendency of prices, i.e., to buy when prices are generally falling or sell when prices are generally rising.
- put up a fightTo offer some form of resistance to an attack.
- Good Fight
- food fightA typically spontaneous and disorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement, especially across a cafeteria room, as a form of chaotic collective behavior.
- water fightAn activity, usually involving children, where the participants use water balloons, guns and pistols to get each other wet.
- fight to the finishA competition in which both parties continue until one side is unequivocally defeated.
- fight fire with fireTo respond to an attack with a similar or identical counter-attack (e.g. to respond to gunfire with reciprocal gunfire).
- pillow fightA play fight that involves hitting others with pillows.
- fight it outTo fight until there is decisively and conclusively a winner
- snowball fightA scuffle or play fight whose object is to hit opponents with snowballs.
- fight to the deathTo take part in a battle in which the winner is the sole survivor.
- fight songA sports team's anthem, sung by fans to cheer the team.
- street fightAn unsanctioned and usually illegal fight in a street.
- fight the good fightTo battle or try to achieve something for a noble cause.
- cat fightAlternative form of catfight: A fight between cats.
- fight songsplural of fight song: A sports team's anthem, sung by fans to cheer the team.
- fire-fightAlternative form of firefight: A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
- freedom fightSynonym of war of independence: A civil war by which a rebellious party achieves its independence from a state or ruler.
- running fightA fight kept up between one party that flees and another that pursues.
- stick fightAn online trend of highly choreographed, action-packed martial arts animations and games featuring simple stick figures; a genre and subculture of viral videos, web series, and playable Flash games.
- chicken fightA game, often played in a lake or swimming pool, where two people, each sitting on a teammate's shoulders, attempt to knock each other down.
Compound words 50
- fighterA person who fights; a combatant.
- catfightA fight between cats.
- bullfightA public spectacle, in Spain and some other Latin countries, in which a person baits and often kills a bull.
- dogfightA twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.
- firefightA skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
- cockfightA contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
- fightbackA campaign of resistance; a counterattack.
- fistfightA fight using bare fists.
- copyfightA dispute over copyright.
- prizefightA professional boxing match, in which two boxers compete for a prize (usually money).