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Prizefighting

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Noun
  1. 1
    Professional boxing, in which two fighters compete for a prize. uncountable, usually

    "OF all the people gathered on Ninth Avenue Wednesday night to watch Marc Jacobs's spring 2003 runway show, I'm fairly sure I was the only one thinking about prizefighting."

Etymology

See prizefight. Originally Prize Playing, with play referring to sparring, a practice fight. By surface analysis, prize + fighting.

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