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BOXER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany
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Hypernyms ("boxer" is a kind of...):
working dog (any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who fights with his fists for sport
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("boxer" is a kind of...):
battler; belligerent; combatant; fighter; scrapper (someone who fights (or is fighting))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boxer"):
welterweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds)
super heavyweight (an amateur boxer who weighs more than 201 pounds)
palooka; stumblebum (a second-rate prize fighter)
sparring mate; sparring partner (a boxer who spars with another boxer who is training for an important fight)
puncher (someone who delivers punches)
gladiator; prizefighter (a professional boxer)
middleweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds)
light welterweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 140 pounds)
lightweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds)
light middleweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 156 pounds)
light heavyweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 179 pounds)
light flyweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 106 pounds)
junior welterweight (weighs no more than 140 pounds)
junior middleweight (weighs no more than 154 pounds)
junior lightweight (weighs no more than 130 pounds)
junior featherweight (weighs no more than 122 pounds)
heavyweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds)
flyweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds)
featherweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds)
slogger; slugger (a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches)
bantamweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds)
Derivation:
box (engage in a boxing match)
box (hit with the fist)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Boxer" is a kind of...):
Chinese (a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A workman employed to pack things into containers
Synonyms:
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Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("boxer" is a kind of...):
working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)
Derivation:
box (put into a box)
Context examples:
The sporting gentlemen of those days were very fine boxers for the most part, for it was the mode to take a course of Mendoza, just as a few years afterwards there was no man about town who had not had the mufflers on with Jackson.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
