bare-knuckles

Variant of bare-knuckle

adjective, adverb

  1. using bare fists rather than boxing gloves: a bare-knuckle prizefight, to fight bare-knuckle
  2. without refinement, compromise, etc.; rough: a bare-knuckle legal battle
Also bare-knuckled or occas. bare-knuckles
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