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单词 dogfight
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dogfight

(dɒgfaɪt, US dɔːg-) also dog fight
Word forms: plural dogfights
1. countable noun
A dogfight is a fight between fighter planes, in which they fly close to one another and move very fast.
2. countable noun
If you say that organizations or people are involved in a dogfight, you mean they are struggling very hard against each other in order to succeed.
The three leading contenders were locked in a dogfight.

dogfight in British English

(ˈdɒɡˌfaɪt)
noun
1. 
close quarters combat between fighter aircraft
2. 
any rough violent fight

dogfight in American English

(ˈdɔgˌfaɪt)
noun
1. 
a rough, violent fight between, or as between, dogs
2.  Military
combat as between fighter planes at close quarters

Examples of 'dogfight' in a sentence
dogfight

Then he declared there is no mercy in the dogfight at the bottom.
The Sun (2013)
But he faces a third successive relegation dogfight.
The Sun (2011)
This series will be a real dogfight.
The Sun (2010)
Everybody at the club has to understand this is a real dogfight.
The Sun (2015)
The schoolboy way they defended corners certainly left them with no excuses as they face a relegation dogfight.
The Sun (2011)
But the talks foundered and the two teams are now in a dogfight for tens of millions of pounds in prize money.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
We're conceding silly goals and in a relegation dogfight.
The Sun (2007)
It doesn't take a mastermind to see that this is a real dogfight.
The Sun (2009)
It's going to be a real dogfight to the bitter end.
The Sun (2014)
A serious dogfight is not now the likelihood.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We're in a dogfight now.
The Sun (2006)
It is almost as if the pressure of the situation as they face a relegation dogfight is making them crumble rather than discovering some inner bottle.
The Sun (2015)
But he admitted: 'Who wants to come into a relegation dogfight?
The Sun (2012)
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