A blood sport in which two roosters (cocks) are placed in an arena to fight each other, historically popular and now illegal in many places.
Compound of cock (rooster) and fight. Cockfighting dates back thousands of years to ancient Persia and Mediterranean regions and was popular in Europe through the 19th century.
Cockfighting was so deeply woven into European society that it was called 'the king's sport'—in the 1600s, even royal courts had cockfighting pits, and betting on cockfights was how fortunes changed hands among nobility and commoners alike.
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