noun /ˈfɪs.tɪ.kʌfs/
a) An impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people.
People who share a cell in the Basti[l]le if they do not immediately fall to fisticuffs, will find some possible ground of compromise.
, his head all scarred with the sticks and fisticuffs which he had got in the taverns at Utrecht,
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