noun [capitalized] A member of a Chinese association known as Yi Ho Ch'uan Hwuy, “The Righteousness, Harmony, and Fists Society,” organized in China in 1900 or earlier, ostensibly for the practice of athletics, but really as a league for the expulsion of foreigners and the uprooting of Christianity.
noun One who fights with his fists; a pugilist.
noun One whose occupation is to pack or put up things in boxes.
noun A bowler or low-crowned stiff felt hat; a billycock hat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One who boxes; a pugilist.
noun One who packs boxes.
noun A breed of dog.
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noun A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.
noun A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
noun A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
noun The person running a game of two-up.
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noun someone who fights with his fists for sport
noun a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China
noun a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany
noun a workman employed to pack things into containers
Etymologies
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These engines are flat engines with the piston reciprocating horizontally as if they are boxing hence the term boxer engines.
The Commission on Elections says the boxer is ahead in the count in the southern province of Sarangani, where only about half of 300,000 registered voters cast ballots Monday due to a day-long downpour.
The boxer is seeking to join other Filipino celebrities and former athletes who have won seats in the House of Representatives in the past two decades.
Yup, Jiang Daiyan was casted as young bruce lee, and they are looking to cast an adult bruce lee for IP Man 3. so bruce will be in the movie but as a kid ventricity of course the western boxer is the bad guy
chained_bear commented on the word boxer
a dog breed "developed in 1850 in Munich by crossing the Bullenbeisser mastiff and the bulldog." (Simon & Schuster's Guide to Dogs, 1980)
February 21, 2007