Definition of "prize-fight" []

• A pugilistic encounter or boxing-match for a prize or wager. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Bill Totts really wasn't able to see beyond the next meal and the prize-fight the following night at the Gaiety Athletic Club."
• "Then there are the good, kind somnambulists who don't prize-fight, who don't play the commercial game, who don't teach and preach somnambulism, who don't do anything except live off of the dividends that are coined out of the wan, white fluid that runs in the veins of little children, out of mothers 'tears, the blood of strong men, and the groans and sighs of the old."
• "But the man of the prize-fight – he is the brute, the human beast, the savage primitive, the maniac that receives many blows in his stupid face and rejoices."