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boxer

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  • Regno Unito//ˈbɒksə//
  • Stati Uniti//ˈbɑksɚ//

A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.

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  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

    Anche una forma di 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.

Etimologia

From box + -er.

sostantivo

  1. 1

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

Etimologia

Borrowed from German Boxer, from boxen (“to box (strike with the fists)”) + -er.

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