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