DCHP-1 Online
scrapping-hitch West, Slang, Obs. 
n. a brawl.
- 1900 Scrapping-hitches and other forms of the free North-Western fight became so frequent that the railway men in charge sent in an urgent message to the authorities for a few dozen [NWMP] troopers.
- 1900 . . .there were seasons of the year . . . when the little village under the walls of Fort Garry was a pandemonium of drunken, gambling "breeds," but nothing worse than a black eye or a bitten thumb, or a kick "between the long ribs and the short," ever befell those who took a hand in these "scrapping-hitches."
- 1900 Scrapping-hitches and other forms of the free North-Western fight became so frequent that the railway men in charge sent in an urgent message to the authorities for a few dozen [NWMP] troopers.