boxer

See also: Boxer and bóxer

English

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

Etymology

box + -er

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɒksə/
  • (file)
  • (US) enPR: bäksʹər, IPA(key): /ˈbɑksɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒksə(ɹ)

Noun

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

Etymology

Named after its glove-like palps.

Noun

boxer

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

Czech

Noun

boxer m anim

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

Declension

Noun

boxer m inan

  1. brass knuckles
  2. boxer engine

Declension

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk.sɛʁ/
  • (file)

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

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

Etymology 2

From English box + -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk.se/

Verb

boxer

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

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer shorts.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔkser/

Noun

boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer shorts, boxers

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

Noun

boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer (dog)

Etymology 3

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer engine.

Noun

boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer (engine)

Norman

Etymology

From English box + -er.

Verb

boxer

  1. (Jersey) to box

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔk.seʁ/ [ˈbɔk.seh]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈbɔk.seɾ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈbɔk.seʁ/ [ˈbɔk.seχ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔk.seɻ/

  • Hyphenation: bo‧xer

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French boxeur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbok.ser/

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxeră)

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)
Declension

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Spanish

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer
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