Fighting

Fight·ing

Fighting

a.
  1. Qualified for war; fit for battle.
    An host of fighting men.
    — 2 Chron. xxvi. 11.
  2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.

Phrases & Compounds

A fighting chance
one dependent upon the issue of a struggle.
Fighting crab
the fiddler crab.
Fighting fish
a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.