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bare-knuckled

  1. simple past and past participle of bare-knuckle

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bare-knuckled (comparative more bare-knuckled, superlative most bare-knuckled)

  1. Synonym of bare-knuckle
    1. Without boxing gloves
      • 2000, Murray Phillips, From Sidelines to Centre Field, →ISBN:
        Frank Slavin, who fought both bare-knuckled and gloved bouts, was the heavyweight champion of Australia and boxed in the United States, Canada and England.
      • 2004, Robert E. Howard, Paul Herman, Waterfront Fists and Others, →ISBN:
        Well, it's hard to knock a tough man cold with bare-knuckled head punches.
      • 2012, Gregory Dupree, Harlem Street Fighter, →ISBN, page 3:
        However, Dean was hardly a nature lover, so his attention immediately went to eight men in the backyard, who were training in bare-knuckled fist fighting—three white men and five colored men.
    2. Ruthlessly competitive
      • 1999, Sue Welfare, Off the Record, →ISBN, page 279:
        His return – armed with a set peppered with Clash classics such as 'London Calling' and 'White Man In Hammersmith Palais' – had the old bare-knuckled punks from 1977 literally in tears.
      • 2007, Patrick G. Williams, Red River Valley: Beyond Redemption, →ISBN:
        Recent electoral battles in the city had been closely contested, bare-knuckled affairs, each party routinely accusing the other of cheating.
      • 2010, John B. Abbink, Alternative Assets and Strategic Allocation, →ISBN, page 141:
        Nevertheless, merger arbitrage is not wholly lacking in bare-knuckled elements.