"a fisticuff"

[Jonathan Lighter]

  E! The Entertainment Network reports (on a show called "Big Events Go Bad") that "the two rappers got into a fisticuff."  It's not like a handcuff, it's like a fistfight.

  Google and Usenet produce about 200 nonreduplicative hits for "into / in a fisticuff."

  JL



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