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fisticuffs
noun
[ ˈfɪstɪkʌfs ]
• fighting with the fists.
• "the result was an outbreak of fisticuffs"
Origin:
early 17th century: probably from obsolete fisty ‘relating to the fists or to fist fighting’ + cuff2.