game fowl

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   any of several breeds reared for cockfighting

   Broaderdomestic fowl

Questions about game fowl

What does game fowl mean?

game fowl means "any of several breeds reared for cockfighting".

Is game fowl a common word?

game fowl 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.