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形容詞

dead game (not comparable)

1. a fighting dog created through selective breeding for gameness not to quit dogfighting until death.
   • Jessup, Diane. WorkingPitbull.com, Gameness Defined.^[1]

     "The ultimate goal of those who breed fighting dogs is a "dead game" dog, meaning an animal which will, while in the heat of battle, continue to struggle toward its opponent when called upon to cross the pit while dying of heat exhaustion, in shock, with broken legs, internal injuries, crushed nasal cavities or other conditions, which cause its death in the pit or within a few hours after the fight."

   • "GameBred.com"^[2]

     "Gameness could be measured on a sliding scale going from determined and highly willing to dead game."

   • 1987. Swift, E.M. The Pit Bull Friend and Killer. Sports Illustrated.^[3]

     "They're athletes. They're wrestlers. They're dead game," says Captain Arthur Haggerty, a dog breeder and trainer in New York City who owns five pit bull terriers and has trained hundreds of others. "They will literally fight till they're dead. If you found that quality in a boxer or a football player, you'd say it was admirable. Will to win. That's what a pit bull has."