See also: Boxer and bóxer

EnglishEdit

 
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Two boxers (fighters) in a boxing match.
 
A boxer (breed of dog).

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box +‎ -er

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boxer (plural boxers)

  1. A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.
    You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.
  2. A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
  3. A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
  4. The person running a game of two-up.
  5. One who packs boxes.
    • 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn, page 385:
      They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes []
  6. A letterboxer.

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CebuanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Named after its glove-like palps.

NounEdit

boxer

  1. an unqualified spider in spider fighting, a male with glove-like palps, instead used as a feed

CzechEdit

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boxer m anim

  1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)
  2. boxer (breed of dog)

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boxer m inan

  1. brass knuckles
  2. boxer engine

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boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. boxer (dog)
  2. boxer shorts, boxers
  3. boxer (engine)

Etymology 2Edit

From English box +‎ -er.

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boxer

  1. to box (to fight against (a person) in a boxing match)
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  • Catalan: boxar

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EtymologyEdit

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer shorts.

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boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer shorts

NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English box +‎ -er.

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boxer

  1. (Jersey) to box

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boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)

RomanianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from French boxeur.

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boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxeră)

  1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)
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Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

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boxer m (plural boxeri)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)
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boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer