barfight

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English

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Etymology

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From bar +‎ fight.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ)faɪt/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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barfight (plural barfights)

  1. A fight that takes place in a bar.
    • 2007 March 11, Ron Powers, “Unsivilized”, in New York Times[1]:
      Later he will knock the teeth out of a small black boy; abet a grotesquely fat, lizard-skinned “preacher” in the casual abduction, sodomizing and murder of the same child — “abet” him by shooting the child’s father in the throat; soon afterward choke and drown the depraved preacher himself; choke to death an elderly half-wit and then burn his house; lacerate a man’s mouth with broken glass in a barfight, and ogle Becky Thatcher’s braided pigtails from behind.