subs. (common).—A party; e.g., TEA FIGHT, WEDDING-FIGHT, etc. Cf., SCRAMBLE, and WORRY: also ROW (q.v.).

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  TO FIGHT or PLAY COCUM.—See COCUM.

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  TO FIGHT or BUCK THE TIGER.—See BUCK and quots., infra.

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  1870.  London Figaro, 20 July. The other day a gentleman of San Francisco, hitherto only noted for deeds of daring in FIGHTING THE TIGER, was seated asleep in the smoking-car of the evening train from Sacramento on the Vallejo route.

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  1886.  Daily Telegraph, 18 Oct., p. 5, col. 3. If they subsequently FIGHT THE TIGER at the games of faro or roulette.

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  ONE THAT CAN FIGHT HIS WEIGHT IN WILD CATS, subs. phr. (American).—A brilliant desperado.

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  1876.  BESANT and RICE, The Golden Butterfly, ch. xviii. John Halkett, as I learned afterwards, could FIGHT HIS WEIGHT IN WILD CATS.

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