"duke out" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From duke it out.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dukes out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "duking out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "duked out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "duked out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "duke out (third-person singular simple present dukes out, present participle duking out, simple past and past participle duked out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"out\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "text": "Both perfect homes are destroyed—and yet the two men remain effectively passive, locked in hang-ups while assorted protégés and allies do all the duking out and legwork.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:",
          "text": "How does the media love Twitter? Let us count the ways: as a tech platform practically indispensable to the work of newsgathering; as a metrics system designating clear numerical value to once-squishy concepts of popularity and esteem; as a gossip-fueled lunchroom of the elites more or less available for public participation; as an arena for duking out industry controversies ranging from #MeToo to opinions about opinion pages.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fight, especially with fists; to knock out (someone)."
      ],
      "id": "en-duke_out-en-verb-gxWJD1K4",
      "links": [
        [
          "fight",
          "fight"
        ],
        [
          "fist",
          "fist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, transitive) To fight, especially with fists; to knock out (someone)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "duke out"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From duke it out.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dukes out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "duking out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "duked out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "duked out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "duke out (third-person singular simple present dukes out, present participle duking out, simple past and past participle duked out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"out\"",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "text": "Both perfect homes are destroyed—and yet the two men remain effectively passive, locked in hang-ups while assorted protégés and allies do all the duking out and legwork.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:",
          "text": "How does the media love Twitter? Let us count the ways: as a tech platform practically indispensable to the work of newsgathering; as a metrics system designating clear numerical value to once-squishy concepts of popularity and esteem; as a gossip-fueled lunchroom of the elites more or less available for public participation; as an arena for duking out industry controversies ranging from #MeToo to opinions about opinion pages.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fight, especially with fists; to knock out (someone)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fight",
          "fight"
        ],
        [
          "fist",
          "fist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, transitive) To fight, especially with fists; to knock out (someone)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "duke out"
}