- bare-knuckle
- also bare-knuckled or bare-knuckles
adjective or adverb
Date: 1903
1. not using boxing gloves <> <when men fought bare-knuckle> 2. having a fierce unrelenting character <bare-knuckle politics>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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