Boxer

//ˈbɑksɚ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.

    "You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose."

  2. 2
    A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
  3. 3
    A Chinese anti-imperial and xenophobic rebel of the early 1900s. historical
  4. 4
    a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany wordnet
  5. 5
    A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
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  1. 6
    someone who fights with their fists for sport wordnet
  2. 7
    The person running a game of two-up.
  3. 8
    a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China wordnet
  4. 9
    One who packs boxes.

    "They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]"

  5. 10
    a workman employed to pack things into containers wordnet
  6. 11
    A letterboxer.
  7. 12
    Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”). attributive, form-of

    "Jockey International, the major boxer maker, has a design for everyone: jungle prints featuring the irrepressible Garfield the cat peeping out between the leaves; […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From box + -er.

Etymology 2

From German Boxer, from boxen (“to box (strike with the fists)”) + -er.

Etymology 3

Named Boxers by the West, since their official title was "The Fist of Righteous Harmony" (義和拳 /义和拳 (Yìhéquán)) and their symbol was a clenched fist.

Etymology 4

Named Boxers by the West, since their official title was "The Fist of Righteous Harmony" (義和拳 /义和拳 (Yìhéquán)) and their symbol was a clenched fist.

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