prize-fight
(ˈpraɪzˌfaɪt)
[app. a late back-formation from next.]
A public contest between prize-fighters; a boxing-match for money.
| 1824 W. N. Blane Excursion 508 There had just been a ‘prize fight’ well attended by noblemen and gentlemen. 1857 Hughes Tom Brown ii. v, The stories he had heard of men being killed in prize-fights rose up horribly before him. 1898 Daily News 18 Nov. 4/5 Sir John Bridge said this contest was not, in his opinion, a sparring match, but a prize-fight. He held that fighting for money was a prize-fight, and that was illegal. |