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Strictly speaking assault is when you put someone in eminent fear of bodily harm and battery is when you actually strike them.I'm talking about any fight I get into. In this conversation, I said the kid was gutless. It's assault, period (or whatever technical legal term... i know what murder and mayhem are, still haven't mastered this "assault" vs "battery" thing!). Not until we moved to Dearborn did I experience this phenomena of two guys dancing around wanting to punch each other in the head.