boxer

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See also: Boxer and bóxer

English[edit]

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

Etymology[edit]

box +‎ -er

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Noun[edit]

boxer (plural boxers)

  1. A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.
    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.

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Cebuano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Named after its glove-like palps.

Noun[edit]

boxer

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

Czech[edit]

Noun[edit]

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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French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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boxer m (plural boxers)

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

Etymology 2[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer shorts.

Noun[edit]

boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer shorts

Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English box +‎ -er.

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boxer

  1. (Jersey) to box

Portuguese[edit]

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boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)

Romanian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from French boxeur.

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Noun[edit]

boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxeră)

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

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer