fighter

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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fighter (ˈfaɪtə)

—n
1.	a person who fights, esp a professional boxer
2.	a person who has determination
3.	military an armed aircraft designed for destroying other aircraft

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fighter

O.E. feohtere; see fight. Meaning "fast military airplane used for combat" is from 1917.

Example sentences

Its crew has what the crews of fighter jets lack: situational,

smell-of-the-battlefield awareness.

Double down on conciliator mode or become a fighter.

Undercover agents arrest a suspected rooster fighter while in possession of

contraband birds.

To fishermen, the chinook is known as a fighter, and likewise its advocates

won't let the fish die out without a struggle.

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"I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am —and this ought to be made very clear—I am a very serious woman."

-Bella Abzug