knife fight

1. 1.

   fighting with knives

   Synonymssnickersneecut-and-thrust

   Broaderfight

Questions about knife fight

What does knife fight mean?

knife fight means "fighting with knives".

What is another word for knife fight?

Close synonyms include snickersnee, cut-and-thrust. 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 knife fight a common word?

knife fight 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.