fighting cock

1. 1.

   a cock bred and trained for fighting

   Synonymsgamecock

   Broadercock

Questions about fighting cock

What does fighting cock mean?

fighting cock means "a cock bred and trained for fighting".

What is another word for fighting cock?

Close synonyms include gamecock. 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 fighting cock a common word?

fighting cock 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.