boxer

noun

1. 1

   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.

   He [Bad Bunny] strode past vendors of coco frio, tacos and piraguas; a pair of boxers sparring; a table of older gentlemen playing dominoes; women at a nail salon.

2. 2

   A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.

3. 3

   The person running a game of two-up.

4. 4

   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 […]

5. 5

   A letterboxer.

6. 6

   Also a form of boxersAttributive 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.

noun

1. 1

   A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.

Forms

plural

boxers