cockfight

cock +‎ fight

cockfight (plural cockfights)

1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

   Synonym: (archaic) cockmatch

cockfight (third-person singular simple present cockfights, present participle cockfighting, simple past and past participle cockfought)

1. 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.

• cockfighter
• cockfighting

• alectoromachy