bare-knuckle

bare-knuckle
also bare-knuckled or bare-knuckles adjective or adverb Date: 1903 1. not using boxing gloves <
champion bare-knuckle prizefighter of England — Dennis Craig
>
<
when men fought bare-knuckle
>
2. having a fierce unrelenting character <
bare-knuckle politics
>

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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