stickfighter
English
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edit- Rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
editstickfighter (plural stickfighters)
- One who competes in stickfighting.
- 2005, Kevin Baldeosingh, The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar, →ISBN, page 383:
- Most people had forgotten I had ever been a stickfighter.
- 2010, Robert van Gulik, Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story, →ISBN, page 42:
- Quickly grabbing one of the crutches, he whispered: 'If we are attacked, you just clear out. I can look after myself; I am a stickfighter. Don't worry!'
- 2010, A Life in Full and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 63:
- In the evening I practise my forms with Lapy, who'd be a good stickfighter if he could be bothered.