fighting fit

See also: fighting-fit

English

WOTD – 30 December 2021

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˌfaɪtɪŋ ˈfɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Hyphenation: fight‧ing fit

Adjective

fighting fit (not comparable)

1. (UK) Sufficiently fit to participate in fighting; hence, in top physical condition.
   • 1961 March, Balmore [pseudonym], “Driving and Firing Modern French Steam Locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 151:

     We felt fighting fit after this as we went outside to prepare the engine for the return journey.

   • 2016, Paddy Rochford, Caroline Rochford, In a Guardsman’s Boots: A Boy Soldier’s Adventures from the Streets of 1920s Dublin to Buckingham Palace, WWII and the Egyptian Revolution‎^[1], Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, →ISBN:

     We were all fighting fit, but still hadn't learned to conquer the desert's khamsins: scorching, unbearable winds that blew through the sands.

Alternative forms

• fighting-fit

Hypernyms

• healthy

Derived terms

• fighting fitness, fighting-fitness

Translations

sufficiently fit to participate in fighting

in top physical condition

• Spanish: en plena forma

See also

• Thesaurus:healthy

Further reading

• “fighting-fit, adj.” under “fighting, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2020.
• “fighting fit, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “fighting fit”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “fighting fit” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.