square off

verb

1. To get ready for a confrontation (debate, argument, fight).

   “Hey, man, don't square off on me with some bullshit.”

   “When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. [title]”

2. To increase the boxiness of (a design).

   “After the aeronautically inspired curvaceous designs of the 1930s and 1940s, many American automotive designs of the 1950s through 1970s were somewhat more squared off.”