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    6 months ago

    That sounds awesome!

    I don’t know about the words punch ons though. I’d use drunken brawls or fisty-cuffs or drunken biffs but you are the writer and you do a might fine job.

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        6 months ago

        Fair enough! I think “punch-ons” is a fairly new word though, often meaning everyone in. The old school term was “a bar-room brawl” or one on one “a bit of a biff” or nothing serious “fisty-cuffs”.

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          It’s surely a newer word. I do like fisticuffs, but doesn’t quite suit the gruffness of ole Constable Harris.

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            I love how the aussie lingo has 99 words to describe a fight 😂

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          Spelled ‘fisticuffs’ I think. Punch-on is perfectly respectable slang though. If you want REALLY old slang, try ‘wigs on the green’ for a brawl. As a phrase survived here in Aus a lot longer than its place of origin.