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Definition of Blood sport
1. Noun. Sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting).
Generic synonyms: Athletics, Sport
Definition of Blood sport
1. Noun. A sport involving the killing or the shedding of blood of animals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood Sport
Literary usage of Blood sport
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hunting Directory: Containing a Compendious View of the Ancient and by Thomas Burgeland Johnson (1826)
"He thus expresses himself—" the whole art of fox-hunting being to keep the hounds
well in blood: sport is but a secondary consideration with a true ..."
2. King Arthur by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1851)
"It is not man's—for they, man's savage foes, Whose sense ne'er fails them when
the scent is blood, Sport in the shadow the Unseen One throws, Nor hush their ..."
3. The American Fruit Culturist by John Jacobs Thomas (1897)
"Jaffa Blood. Sport of Jaffa; colored inside like the type, which it closely
resembles and fully equals. ..."
4. Valentine's Manual of Old New Yorkby New York (N.Y.). Common Council by New York (N.Y.). Common Council (1916)
"... yesterday was begun on the Maiden Head race ground, in the Bowery, which will
continue for several days to come, the high blood sport of Horse Racing. ..."
5. Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governor by Richard A. Hogarty (2001)
"Politics had become a blood sport. In September 1866, Governor Marcus Ward called
a special session of the state legislature for the dual purpose of ..."
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