Definitions for boxers

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boxers box·er

Spelling: [bok-ser]

IPA: /ˈbɒk sər/

Boxers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in boxers (beorsx).

Definitions for boxers

noun

1. a person who fights as a sport, usually with gloved fists, according to set rules; prize-fighter; pugilist.
2. one of a German breed of medium-sized, stocky, short-haired, pug-faced dogs having a brindled or tan coat with white markings.
3. a person or thing that packs items into boxes.
4. boxers, boxer shorts.
5. a member of a Chinese secret society that carried on an unsuccessful uprising, 1898–1900 (Boxer Rebellion) principally against foreigners, culminating in a siege of foreign legations in Peking that was put down by an international expeditionary force.

Origin of boxers

First recorded in 1735-45; box² + -er¹

Examples for boxers

More items came in time, as funding was available, like a slit-and-lace-up jacket and a line of boxer underwear.

From what I could see of him he was no boxer at all, but just a formidable rough and tumble fighter.

Parker found him no boxer, and beat a tattoo upon his middle.

Later members who joined like boxer Enriquez have been called the Pepsi Generation.

Mrs. boxer sobbed, and before she had recovered, the lawyer entered.

Had you been an English boxer you would have leapt back as quickly as I leapt forward.

After Olympic boxer Guillermo Rigondeux defected, his family suffered a form of domestic exile.

On Thursday, Garcetti ruled himself out of the race to succeed boxer.

"Gee up, boxer—we'll wet its head at the Hibernian," said Crow.

But on Thursday boxer triggered a Golden State political earthquake, announcing that she would not seek a fifth term in 2016.