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- noun One who engages in a
cockfight .
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Examples
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The claim that Thomas Jefferson was a cockfighter is just malarkey!
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That kind of evidence would make me a cockfighter!
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They claim Washington was a cockfighter, but the historical record only shows he went to a cockfight when he was 19 and he left early.
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Rodney E. Bourgeois of Vacherie, LA, whodescribes himself as a husband, father, grandfather, Louisianian, veteran and cockfighter agrees.
On the Menu and on the Docket; Legislators Look at Fowl Foul Play 2007
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"I have moved five times in order to raise and fight my game cocks," a fourth generation cockfighter from Oklahoma recently wrote in an email.
On the Menu and on the Docket; Legislators Look at Fowl Foul Play 2007
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"Lentini [Sen. Art Lentini, R-Metairie, bansponsor] what is the cockfighter to do with his cocks?" implores a commentator on the New Orleans Times-Picayune web site.
On the Menu and on the Docket; Legislators Look at Fowl Foul Play 2007
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And Hans stamped with his feet, and hooted at a distance, and hissed between his teeth, with all the zest of a modern cockfighter in the sport, rather to the scandal and shame of his more cautious and scrupulous companion.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various
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Chuan, by Ch'en Hung, which tells how Chia Chang, a famous cockfighter, became so famous that he was loved by emperor and people alike.
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Fu Chuan, by Ch'en Hung, which tells how Chia Chang, a famous cockfighter, became so famous that he was loved by emperor and people alike.
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Sexual selection, by always allowing the victor to breed, might surely give indomitable courage, length to the spur, and strength to the wing to strike in the spurred leg, in nearly the same manner as does the brutal cockfighter by the careful selection of his best cocks.
IV. Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest. Sexual Selection 1909
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