Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A match fought between professional boxers for money.
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- noun A
professional boxing match , in which two boxers compete for aprize (usually money).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize
- verb box for a prize or money
Etymologies
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Examples
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He also admitted he'd attended one "prizefight" in his life - presumably not in the era when such a term was widely used.
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Sun minimized some of the "gifts" itemized in the government's case, such as prizefight tickets and World Series luxury box seats.
AroundTheCapitol.com 2008
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The prizefight has been presented, entertainingly, in the usual terms – of highbrow versus lowbrow culture, of pompous literary elites against good, old-fashioned readers.
Great literature will live on with or without a prize | Observer editorial 2011
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Throughout the week, a great number of teams who didn't get to grace the finals stage - including the teams from New York's Louder Arts and St. Paul's Soapboxing slams highlighted in a story that aired on WBUR-FM -- delivered generally well-wrought and decidedly practiced work in more confined, sold-out venues, combining the intimacy of theater with the intensity of prizefight.
Phil West: Poetry Slam at 25: Why Some People Stand in Line in the Rain to Hear Poems Phil West 2011
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Jack Johnson was so impressed by Gans's swinging joint that he used his own prizefight earnings to start the Cotton Club.
Sarah Deming: U.S. Women's Boxing Trials: Day 4 Sarah Deming 2012
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Throughout the week, a great number of teams who didn't get to grace the finals stage - including the teams from New York's Louder Arts and St. Paul's Soapboxing slams highlighted in a story that aired on WBUR-FM -- delivered generally well-wrought and decidedly practiced work in more confined, sold-out venues, combining the intimacy of theater with the intensity of prizefight.
Phil West: Poetry Slam at 25: Why Some People Stand in Line in the Rain to Hear Poems Phil West 2011
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Throughout the week, a great number of teams who didn't get to grace the finals stage - including the teams from New York's Louder Arts and St. Paul's Soapboxing slams highlighted in a story that aired on WBUR-FM -- delivered generally well-wrought and decidedly practiced work in more confined, sold-out venues, combining the intimacy of theater with the intensity of prizefight.
Phil West: Poetry Slam at 25: Why Some People Stand in Line in the Rain to Hear Poems Phil West 2011
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Throughout the week, a great number of teams who didn't get to grace the finals stage - including the teams from New York's Louder Arts and St. Paul's Soapboxing slams highlighted in a story that aired on WBUR-FM -- delivered generally well-wrought and decidedly practiced work in more confined, sold-out venues, combining the intimacy of theater with the intensity of prizefight.
Phil West: Poetry Slam at 25: Why Some People Stand in Line in the Rain to Hear Poems Phil West 2011
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Spokespeople for the campaigns who appeared on television after the debate offered a different view, insisting their candidate had clearly routed the other, and had it been a prizefight, it would have been stopped by the referee in the early rounds.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Throughout the week, a great number of teams who didn't get to grace the finals stage - including the teams from New York's Louder Arts and St. Paul's Soapboxing slams highlighted in a story that aired on WBUR-FM -- delivered generally well-wrought and decidedly practiced work in more confined, sold-out venues, combining the intimacy of theater with the intensity of prizefight.
Phil West: Poetry Slam at 25: Why Some People Stand in Line in the Rain to Hear Poems Phil West 2011
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