bare-knuckle
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Inflected forms:
form: bare knuckle
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bare-knuckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bare-knuckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bare-knuckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bare-knuckled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bare knuckle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Without boxing gloves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The bare-knuckle boxing era ended in the early 20th century, when gloves were introduced, stricter rules implemented and oversight organizations formed.
In bare-knuckle fights, one of the most frequent injuries is a broken hand.
He was known as a tough bare-knuckle boxer and had already consolidated a reputation from his teenage years, when he had first thrown his fists in anger.
The difference between a street fight and a bare-knuckle boxing match is an accepted set of rules, such as not striking a downed opponent.
gloss: Characterized by ruthlessly attacking or overpowering an opponent, especially when using underhanded techniques.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: a bareknuckle exchange on the Senate floor
In one sense such bare-knuckle tactics reflect the fact that IP grants are (and are intended to be) monopolies.
In 2000 America witnessed the bare-knuckle tactics of the GOP firsthand in Florida — tactics that included intimidation of black voters, phony felon lists, hired thugs sent by Tom DeLay to stop the recount, a secretary of state who did all that could be done to push the election in Bush's favor, and so on.
The territory was bursting with political spoils and riches to be captured, and “old settlers” vied with newcomers for a place at the head of the line, encouraging bare-knuckle politics with a distinctively local cast.
I'm telling you, all the cracks were already waiting to be slipped through, in every home, in every office, out into space, between haxor invention and bare-knuckle corporate crime.
The body, however, failed to alter the bare-knuckle politics governing the nominating convention.
Can one sustain an accusation that EC law serves to evacuate the public authorities in the Member States from the task of regulating the market inter alia in order to protect the consumer from the harsher excesses of bare-knuckle competition?
gloss: To box without boxing gloves.
pos: verb
examples: ...at 36 he is still able to bare-knuckle the swagger out of the biggest lumberjack in the Northwest.
I hate bare-knuckling on anything but grass.
None of the fights I've been in have included advance notification so I bare-knuckled it.
gloss: To attack or overpower ruthlessly.
pos: verb
examples: “I'm not surprised,” she said, “but your will is strong and your sense of humor is great. They ought to bare-knuckle almost any problem you do have.
Tess shivered, but she knew it wasn't at the prospect of winter just around the corner or that wind bare-knuckling its way under her jacket, but from remembering the icy cold blue of Quinn's eyes.
His associates at City College were the sons of Eastern European working-class Jews from the Lower East Side and the Brooklyn hinterlands; they huddled in the sweaty alcoves of City College, verbally bare-knuckling in both tone and tenor.
Derived words: bare-knuckle fight
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