dogfighting

English

Alternative forms

• dog fighting
• dog-fighting

Noun

dogfighting (uncountable)

1. A blood sport in which dogs fight with one another

   Dogfighting is illegal in most countries.

2. (military, aviation) Close combat between two military aircraft
   • 1972 February, Kevin V. Brown, “Space-Age Dogfighting”, page 74:

     Here, in fighter-pilot language, you're taught the real essential — dogfighting, man-against-man, plane-against-plane — and in a way they never taught us.

Related terms

• dogfight
• dogfighter
• cockfighting
• bullfighting

Verb

dogfighting

1. Present participle of dogfight.