fisticuff noun 2verb 2forms 3 noun2 •(rare) A fistfight.Every fifteen or twenty minutes there was a rush to some part, to witness a fisticuff. — 1852 •(no longer used) A cuff or blow administered with the fist.The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king. — 2021 verb2 •(humorous) To engage in a physical fight.Generously scattering a drop of my fortune on an early morning sea breeze. Should have jumped after it. Grabber at life's banquet follows a fortune to doom. As folk fleece and fisticuff in street. — 1963 •(no longer used) To strike, fight or spar with the fists.Do they fisticuff with thunder-snaggs […] — 1846 formsfisticuffed · fisticuffing · fisticuffs