fisticuffs

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nyrkkitappelu (monikko) fisticuff|lang=en
puhekieltä An impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people.
1881, w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers, "s:Virginibus_PuerisqueCHAPTER_I_-_.22VIRGINIBUS_PUERISQUE.22 Virginibus Puerisque,"

People who share a cell in the Bastille (..) if they do not immediately fall to fisticuffs, will find some possible ground of compromise.

(..), his head all scarred with the sticks and fisticuffs which he had got in the taverns at Utrecht, (..)

In his college days of athletic exercises, Mr. Crisparkle had known professors of the Noble Art of fisticuffs, (..)