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PRIZE FIGHT

Definition: PRIZE FIGHT

PRIZE FIGHT

1. An exhibition contest, esp. one of pugilists, for a stake or wager.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: PRIZE FIGHT

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Dream Interpretation

To see a prize fight in your dreams, denotes your affairs will give you trouble in controlling them. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PRIZE FIGHT

English words defined with "PRIZE FIGHT": BottleholderPrize ring. (references)
Specialty definitions using "PRIZE FIGHT": CASTOR AND POLLOX. (references)

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Modern Usage: PRIZE FIGHT

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Movie/TV Titles

A Prize Fight (1919)

The Great Black VS White Prize Fight (1910)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: PRIZE FIGHT

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The undecided political prize fight. Credit: Library of Congress.

Prize fight, Tom Sayers vs John C. Heenan, Farnborough, England, 1860 / Arthur Sheppard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bainbridge Naval Training Station. Audience at prize fight. Credit: Library of Congress.

John L. Sullivan & Jake Kilrain prize fight. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nelson - Britt prize fight for Lightweight Championship, San Francisco, September 9th, 1905. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PRIZE FIGHT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

prize fight

30
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PRIZE FIGHT

Language Translations for "PRIZE FIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ndeshje boksierësh profesionistë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مباراة ملاكمة للمحترفين. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

професионален боксов мач. (various references)

   

French

  

combat professionnel. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πυγμαχία (boxing, prise fight, pugilism, spar, sparring). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תחרות א'רוף (fight). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hivatásosak ökölvívó mérkõzése, hivatásos ökölvívó-mérkõzés. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

izepray ightfay

   

Russian 

  

боксерское состязание. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ödüllü boks maçı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PRIZE FIGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: prizefight.

Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-i-i-p-r-t-z"

-2 letters: prefight.

-3 letters: fighter, freight, pithier, refight.

-4 letters: fright, pitier, zither.

-5 letters: eight, fight, firth, frith, fritz, girth, grief, grift, gripe, gript, grith, hertz, ither, prize, refit, right, their, thief, thrip, tiger, tripe.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-g-h-i-i-p-r-t-z"
 

+1 letter: prizefights.

 

+2 letters: prizefighter.

 

+3 letters: prizefighters, prizefighting.

 

+4 letters: prizefightings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PRIZE FIGHT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 52 49 5A 45      46 49 47 48 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010010 01001001 01011010 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#73 &#90 &#69 &#32 &#70 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0049 005A 0045      0046 0049 0047 0048 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

505243603924043414254

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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