DCHP-3

scrapping-hitch

West, Slang, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a brawl.

Quotations

1900
. . .there were seasons of the year . . . when the little village under the walls of Fort Garry was a pandemonium of drunken, gambling "breeds," but nothing worse than a black eye or a bitten thumb, or a kick "between the long ribs and the short," ever befell those who took a hand in these "scrapping-hitches."
1900
Scrapping-hitches and other forms of the free North-Western fight became so frequent that the railway men in charge sent in an urgent message to the authorities for a few dozen [NWMP] troopers.