Usually means: Resist or oppose with effort.
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  1. put up a fight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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Definitions from Wiktionary (put up a fight)

verb:  To offer some form of resistance to an attack.
verb:  (figuratively) To protest or make a fuss, especially over a proposed course of action.

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