bout - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

A bout is a fight. If you want to be boxer, start with some easy bouts before challenging the champ.

A bout is a period of time in which something intense happens, like fighting, binging, or being sick, and comes from the word for bending, or going round in a circle. We usually use it these days for something you wouldn't want to go on for too long of a time. If the full moon makes you crazy, you might suffer a bout of madness.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: bout

1	n	a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
2	n	an occasion for excessive eating or drinking

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: bout

1

n a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)

Type of:: competition, contest
an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

n (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive

Synonyms:: round, turn

Types:: top, top of the inning
the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat; bottom, bottom of the inning
the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat

Type of:: division, part, section
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole

n a period of illness

“a bout of fever”

“a bout of depression”

Type of:: period, period of time, time period
an amount of time

2

n an occasion for excessive eating or drinking

Synonyms:: binge, bust, tear

Types:: piss-up
vulgar expression for a bout of heavy drinking

Type of:: revel, revelry
unrestrained merrymaking