close-quarter fighting

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   hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters

   Broaderfight

Questions about close-quarter fighting

What does close-quarter fighting mean?

close-quarter fighting means "hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters".

Is close-quarter fighting a common word?

close-quarter fighting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.