BOXERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boxers mean? 

• BOXERS (noun)
  The noun BOXERS has 1 sense:

1. underpants worn by men

  Familiarity information: BOXERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOXERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Underpants worn by men

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

boxers; boxershorts; drawers; shorts; underdrawers

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

underpants (an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 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)

“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)

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)

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)

The sporting gentlemen of those days were very fine boxers for the most part, for it was the mode to take a course of Mendoza, just as a few years afterwards there was no man about town who had not had the mufflers on with Jackson.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)