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verb 
  1. To fight, especially with the fists.
    A large crowd came to watch the boxers .
  2. (idiom) To argue heavily or at length.
    The candidates duked it out on the proposal for hours.
    Like pharmaceutical companies that sue generic drug makers over their patents or technology companies that over who owns the right to microchip designs, Levi"s says it is trying to protect its most valuable asset, its trademarks. - 29/01/2007, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/business/29jeans.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5094&en=15ca4b048ef4f1ae&hp&ex=1170133200&partner=homepage

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