dogfight

1. 1.

   arrange for an illegal dogfight

   Broaderstage
2. 2.

   engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane

   Broaderbattle

Other forms of dogfight

plural

dogfights·

past tense

dogfighted·

present participle

dogfighting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dogfight

What does dogfight mean?

dogfight means "a fiercely disputed contest". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dogfight?

dogfight has 2 syllables: dog-fight. The stress falls on "dog". In IPA it is /ˈdɑɡˌfaɪt/.

What is another word for dogfight?

Close synonyms include hassle, scuffle, tussle, rough-and-tumble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dogfight a common word?

dogfight is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dogfight?

8 words rhyme with dogfight. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.