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 n.— «The number of Staffordshire bull terriers is soaring amid reports that the breed is being used increasingly for street fighting and a practice known as “lifting,” in which dogs or a dog and a cat are sent down in a high-rise lift in the hope that they will savage each other while being filmed on a mobile phone.» —“Bull terriers shut in lifts for fight to death” by David Smith Guardian Unlimited (United Kingdom) Feb. 3, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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