Boxer meaning

bŏk'sər
One who fights with the fists as a sport.
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Boxer shorts.
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One that packs items in boxes.
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A medium-sized, short-haired dog of a breed developed in Germany, having a brownish coat and a short, square-jawed muzzle.
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A member of a secret society in China that unsuccessfully attempted in 1900 to drive foreigners from the country by violence and force Chinese Christians to renounce their religion.
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A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
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One who boxes; pugilist; prizefighter; often, one skilled in the offensive and defensive tactics of boxing, as distinguished from a slugger.
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Any of a breed of medium-sized dog with a sturdy body and a smooth fawn or brindle coat.
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A member of a Chinese society that led an unsuccessful uprising (the Boxer Rebellion, 1900) against foreign powers and foreigners in China, as a result of which China was forced to make economic and territorial concessions.
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A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.

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

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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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The person running a game of two-up.
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One who packs boxes.
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A Chinese anti-imperial and anti-foreigner rebel of the early 1900s.
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Origin of boxer

  • Approximate translation of Chinese (Mandarin) (yìhé) quán (righteous harmonious) fists, name of a secret political organization
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • German from English boxer (from its pugnacious nature)
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Named Boxers by the west as their official title was "The Fist of Righteous Harmony." and their symbol was a clenched fist.
    From Wiktionary
  • box + -er
    From Wiktionary

Boxer Sentence Examples

  • On Congress Street, below the Observatory, is the Eastern Cemetery, the oldest burying ground of the city; in it are the graves of Commodore Edward Preble, and of Captain Samuel Blythe (1784-1813) and Captain William Burroughs (1785-1813), who were killed in the engagement between the British brig "Boxer" and the American brig "Enterprise," their respective ships, off this coast on the 5th of September 1813.

  • She wore an oversized shirt and boxer shorts, neither of which was hers.

  • Peking suffered severely during the Boxer movement and the siege of the legations in the summer of 1900.

  • When the Tsar Nicholas inaugurated the Peace Conference at the Hague, Count Muraviev extricated his country from a situation of some embarrassment; but when, subsequently, Russian agents in Manchuria and at Peking connived at the agitation which culminated in the Boxer rising of 5900, the relations of the responsible foreign minister with the tsar became strained.

  • Athens fighting Philip has fared, he says, like an amateur boxer opposed to a skilled pugilist.

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