Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fighting

Fighting , adjective

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. — Pope
Collocations (3)
A fighting chance , one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloquial]
Fighting crab (Zoology) , the fiddler crab.
Fighting fish (Zoology) , a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.