bumfight

English

Etymology

bum +‎ fight, generally in reference to Bumfights, a video series produced by Indecline Films in the early 2000s.

Noun

bumfight (plural bumfights)

1. (informal) A fight between homeless or underprivileged people, sometimes filmed as entertainment.
   • 2002, Weekly World News, volume 23, number 47, page 19:

     Bumfights are "exploiting people that are in dire situations," Lisa Davis, a spokesperson for the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, D.C., told a reporter angrily. "It's completely harmful and it's abusive."

   • 2010, Helen Zaltzman, ‎Olly Mann, Answer Me This (page 118)

     Does he make him compete in a bumfight with the tramp who sits outside Londis? No. Not on St Stephen's Day.

   • 2015, Tim Bohn, The Old Blood: Legacy of Magic: Book I:

     His clothes were stained with blood, torn, and rumpled. He looked like the loser of a bum-fight. Not to mention the police were probably looking for him by now.

   • 2018, Dominique Bodin,‎ Luc Robene, Sport and Violence: Rethinking Elias

     These confrontations – 'bumfights' – are filmed and shown on the Internet. Street fighting even enjoys a popularity which is difficult to measure but which nowadays boasts its own sites on the web.