fighting word

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fighting word

A word that one uses to provoke a fight or hostility. Often used in the plural: "Fighting words are categorically excluded from the protection of the First Amendment ... [because] their content embodies a particularly intolerable and socially unnecessary mode of expressing whatever idea the speaker wishes to convey" (Antonin Scalia).

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