boxer

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See also: Boxer and bóxer

English

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

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From box +‎ -er.

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boxer (plural boxers)

  1. A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
    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.
  7. Attributive form of boxers (boxer shorts).
    • 1987, Health, volume 19:
      Jockey International, the major boxer maker, has a design for everyone: jungle prints featuring the irrepressible Garfield the cat peeping out between the leaves; []
    • 2011, Jennie Allen, “Mad”, in Stuck Study: The Places We Get Stuck & the God Who Sets Us Free, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 38:
      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.
    • 2012, “Dennis Miller”, in Ronald H. Dykes, “They Wouldn’t Let Us Win”: Jackson County, Alabama, Veterans Relive the Vietnam War, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:
      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.

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Named after its glove-like palps.

Noun

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boxer

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

Czech

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Noun

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boxer m anim

  1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)
  2. boxer (breed of dog)

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boxer m inan

  1. brass knuckles
  2. boxer engine

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Dutch

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Borrowed from English boxer.

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boxer m (plural boxers, diminutive boxertje n)

  1. boxer (dog)
  2. boxer (engine)
  3. Short for boxershort.
  4. Nonstandard form of bokser.

French

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Etymology 1

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boxer m (plural boxers)

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

Etymology 2

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From English box +‎ -er.

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boxer

  1. to box (to fight against (a person) in a boxing match)
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  • Catalan: boxar

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer shorts.

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boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer shorts, boxers

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

Noun

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boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer (dog)

Etymology 3

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Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer engine.

Noun

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boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer (engine)

Norman

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Etymology

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From English box +‎ -er.

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boxer

  1. (Jersey) to box

Portuguese

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  • Hyphenation: bo‧xer

Noun

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boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French boxeur.

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boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxeră)

  1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)
    Synonym: pugilist
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

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boxer m (plural boxeri)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)
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Spanish

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Noun

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boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer