boxer

Plural: boxers

Noun

• A person whose occupation is to pack items into boxes.
• someone who fights with his fists for sport
• a workman employed to pack things into containers
• a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China
• a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany
• A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
• A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
• The person running a game of two-up.
• One who packs boxes.
• A letterboxer.
• Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
• A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.

Examples

• He wasn’t a pugilist, but a BOXER, earning points for packing words neatly on the board.
• You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.

Synonyms

bagger, packer, pugilist, boxer engine

Related Words

box, boxing, wrestler