"barfight" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)faɪt/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-barfight.wav Forms: barfights [plural]
Etymology: From bar + fight. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bar|fight}} bar + fight Head templates: {{en-noun}} barfight (plural barfights)
  1. A fight that takes place in a bar. Categories (topical): Violence
    Sense id: en-barfight-en-noun-D4BhT~YU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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