English

Alternative forms

• dog fighting
• dog-fighting

Noun

dogfighting ‎(uncountable)

1. A blood sport in which dogs fight with one another

   Dogfighting is illegal in most countries.

2. (military, aviation) Close combat between two military aircraft
   • 1972, February, “Kevin V. Brown”, in Space-Age Dogfighting, page 74:

     Here, in fighter-pilot language, you're taught the real essential — dogfighting, man-against-man, plane-against-plane — and in a way they never taught us.

Related terms

• dogfight
• dogfighter
• cockfighting
• bullfighting

Verb

dogfighting

1. present participle of dogfight