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Boxer
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
"You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose."
- 2 A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
- 3 A Chinese anti-imperial and xenophobic rebel of the early 1900s. historical
- 4 a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany wordnet
- 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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- 6 someone who fights with their fists for sport wordnet
- 7 The person running a game of two-up.
- 8 a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China wordnet
- 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 […]"
- 10 a workman employed to pack things into containers wordnet
- 11 A letterboxer.
- 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
From box + -er.
From German Boxer, from boxen (“to box (strike with the fists)”) + -er.
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.
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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