BOXER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Boxer mean? 

• BOXER (noun)
  The noun BOXER has 4 senses:

1. someone who fights with his fists for sport

2. a workman employed to pack things into containers

3. a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China

4. a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany

  Familiarity information: BOXER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOXER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who fights with his fists for sport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

boxer; pugilist

Hypernyms ("boxer" is a kind of...):

battler; belligerent; combatant; fighter; scrapper (someone who fights (or is fighting))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boxer"):

light heavyweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 179 pounds)

welterweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds)

super heavyweight (an amateur boxer who weighs more than 201 pounds)

palooka; stumblebum (a second-rate prize fighter)

sparring mate; sparring partner (a boxer who spars with another boxer who is training for an important fight)

puncher (someone who delivers punches)

gladiator; prizefighter (a professional boxer)

middleweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds)

light welterweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 140 pounds)

lightweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds)

light middleweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 156 pounds)

bantamweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds)

light flyweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 106 pounds)

junior welterweight (weighs no more than 140 pounds)

junior middleweight (weighs no more than 154 pounds)

junior lightweight (weighs no more than 130 pounds)

junior featherweight (weighs no more than 122 pounds)

heavyweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds)

flyweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds)

featherweight (an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds)

slogger; slugger (a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches)

Derivation:

box (engage in a boxing match)

box (hit with the fist)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A workman employed to pack things into containers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bagger; boxer; packer

Hypernyms ("boxer" is a kind of...):

working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)

Derivation:

box (put into a box)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Boxer" is a kind of...):

Chinese (a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("boxer" is a kind of...):

working dog (any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs)

 Context examples 

Sketches of boxers, of ballet-girls, and of racehorses alternated with a sensuous Fragonard, a martial Girardet, and a dreamy Turner.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was after this that Champion Harrison took his training as a boxer in hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Boxer's body is compact and powerful with a close-fitting coat that comes in fawn, brindle, white and various shades of red, with white markings.

(Boxer, NCI Thesaurus)

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My money is on the old one, but the other is the finer boxer.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Few men were capable of greater muscular effort, and he was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight that I have ever seen; but he looked upon aimless bodily exertion as a waste of energy, and he seldom bestirred himself save when there was some professional object to be served.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He’s the fastest bowler in the Midlands, and at his best there weren’t many boxers in England that could stand up against him.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no exact limit between the light, middle, and heavyweights, and yet it would make a very great difference to the standing of a boxer whether he should be regarded as the heaviest of the light-weights, or the lightest of the heavy-weights.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A little way down the room I saw the black face and woolly head of Bill Richmond, in a purple-and-gold footman’s livery—destined to be the predecessor of Molineaux, Sutton, and all that line of black boxers who have shown that the muscular power and insensibility to pain which distinguish the African give him a peculiar advantage in the sports of the ring.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)