a fighting chance

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a fighting chance - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fighting \Fight"ing\, a.
     1. Qualified for war; fit for battle.
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              An host of fighting men.              --2 Chron.
                                                    xxvi. 11.
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     2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a
        fighting field. --Pope.
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     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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