Definitions

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  • noun A professional boxer.

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  • noun a professional boxer

Etymologies

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See prizefight for origin; surface analysis is prize +‎ fighter or prizefight +‎ -er (“person, agent”).

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Examples

  • You've no idea, Saxon, how a prizefighter is run after.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • You've no idea, Saxon, how a prizefighter is run after.

    Chapter 11 1913

  • More obvious, is: one sanctioning body, fewer titles and experiment with using smaller gloves, shorter and more action packed fights, tournaments (such as prizefighter we have in England) and more competitive fights.

    Main Features 2009

  • More obvious, is: one sanctioning body, fewer titles and experiment with using smaller gloves, shorter and more action packed fights, tournaments (such as prizefighter we have in England) and more competitive fights.

    Main Features 2009

  • (such as prizefighter we have in England) and more competitive fights.

    Main Features 2009

  • (such as prizefighter we have in England) and more competitive fights.

    Main Features 2009

  • No prizefighter, no hero in pinstripes was a greater champion for New York.

    Martin Nolan: Hugh Carey: New York Mensch Martin Nolan 2011

  • "So you're runnin 'with a prizefighter," he sneered.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • I wasn't shoutin 'things out to anybody, but I just made myself into a committee of welcome; an', when the train pulled in, there I was, extendin 'the glad hand of the burg -- likewise the glad hand of a guy you used to know in Oakland once, a third-rate dub prizefighter by the name of -- lemme see -- yep, I got it right -- Big

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • No prizefighter, no hero in pinstripes was a greater champion for New York.

    Martin Nolan: Hugh Carey: New York Mensch Martin Nolan 2011

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