/ˈbɒksə/, /ˈbɑksɚ/
- A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
“You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.”
“In 1925, boxer shorts were unleashed on the world: loose-fitting underwear for men, featuring an elastic waistband inspired by the shorts worn by boxers. It was underwear for the inner pugilist.”
- 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.
“They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]”
- A letterboxer.
- attributive, form-ofAttributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
“Jockey International, the major boxer maker, has a design for everyone: jungle prints featuring the irrepressible Garfield the cat peeping out between the leaves; […]”
“My husband, Zac, noticed my laundry shortcomings when his sock and boxer drawer came up empty, and kindly asked if I could please do some laundry.”
“The boxer-type underwear would tear and get tangled up, and the brief kind would get too binding and hot, so we might not wear either.”
- A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
- historicalA Chinese anti-imperial and xenophobic rebel of the early 1900s.
Formsboxers(plural) · Boxers(plural)