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fighting word

noun

  1. Usually fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.


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We was fighting word counts, so a lot of my essay got chopped up.

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The main target of its critique is also the principal object of its affection, which we might call — using a name that has lately become something of a fighting word — cinema.

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Where Eddy grew up in the show, the word "queer" used to be a fighting word .

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“Circus” was something of a fighting word, especially verboten among Democrats.

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In French- and Spanish-speaking countries, “liberal”, now often prefixed by “neo-”, is a fighting word used with exactly the opposite meaning to that which it has in America: to describe a heartless small-government economic philosophy, and a global order in which the World Bank and International Monetary Fund boss poor countries around, forcing them to adopt market-based economic policies.

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