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PUGILISTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pugilistic mean?
• PUGILISTIC (adjective)
The adjective PUGILISTIC has 1 sense:
1. of or relating to pugilism or pugilists
Familiarity information: PUGILISTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to pugilism or pugilists
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
a pugilistic career
Pertainym:
pugilism (fighting with the fists)
pugilist (someone who fights with his fists for sport)
Derivation:
pugilism (fighting with the fists)
Context examples
The white wooden posts, each with the P.C. of the pugilistic club printed upon it, were so fixed as to leave a square of 24 feet within the roped enclosure.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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