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Webster 1913 Edition


Boxer

Box′er

(bŏks′ẽr)
,
Noun.
One who packs boxes.

Box′er

,
Noun.
One who boxes; a pugilist.

Webster 1828 Edition


Boxer

BOX'ER

,
Noun.
One who fights with his fist.

Definition 2024


Boxer

Boxer

See also: boxer and bóxer

English

Proper noun

Boxer

  1. A Chinese anti-imperial and anti-foreigner rebel of the early 1900s.

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German

Etymology

boxen + -er

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔksɐ/

Noun

Boxer m (genitive Boxers, plural Boxer)

  1. boxer

Declension

boxer

boxer

See also: Boxer and bóxer

English

Two boxers (fighters) in a boxing match.
A boxer (breed of dog).

Noun

boxer (plural boxers)

  1. A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.
    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 type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
  4. The person running a game of two-up.
  5. One who packs boxes.
    • 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn (page 385)
      They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes []
  6. A letterboxer.

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Cebuano

Etymology

Named after it's glove-like palps.

Noun

boxer

  1. an unqualified spider in spider fighting, a male with glove-like palps, instead used as a feed

Czech

Noun

boxer m

  1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)

Declension


French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk.sɛʁ/

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. boxer (dog)
  2. boxer shorts, boxers
  3. boxer (engine)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk.se/

Verb

boxer

  1. to box
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Italian

Noun

boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer shorts

Norman

Etymology

From English box + -er.

Verb

boxer

  1. (Jersey) to box

Portuguese

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowing from French boxeur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbok.ser/

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxeră)

  1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)

Declension

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Etymology 2

Borrowing from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)

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Spanish

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer