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Definition of Prizefighter
1. Noun. A professional boxer.
Generic synonyms: Boxer, Pugilist
Specialized synonyms: Featherweight, Heavyweight, Cruiserweight, Light Heavyweight, Lightweight, Middleweight, Welterweight
Specialized synonyms: Ali, Cassius Clay, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Muhammad Ali, Corbett, Gentleman Jim, James John Corbett, Jim Corbett, Dempsey, Jack Dempsey, Manassa Mauler, William Harrison Dempsey, Charles Liston, Liston, Sonny Liston, Joe Louis, Joseph Louis Barrow, Louis, Marciano, Rocco Marciano, Rocky Marciano, Ray Robinson, Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Walker Smith, Gene Tunney, James Joseph Tunney, Tunney, Michael Gerald Tyson, Mike Tyson, Tyson
Derivative terms: Prizefight
Definition of Prizefighter
1. Noun. A professional boxer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prizefighter
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Prizefighter
Literary usage of Prizefighter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Sporting Prints by Ralph Nevill (1908)
"James Belcher The Prizefighter of Bristol, after Allingham, by E. Clint, ...
Daniel Mendoza A Prizefighter, by Gillray. Dutch Sam A Prizefighter, ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... McAuley —The Story of His Life Told by Himself —Born in a New York Slum — A
Loafer by Day and a River Thief by Night — Prizefighter, Drunkard, Blackleg, ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Jerry McAuley — The Story of His Life Told by Himself — Born in a New York
Slum — A Loafer by Day and a River Thief by Night — Prizefighter, Drunkard, ..."
4. A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and ...by Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan (1790)
"Prizefighter, prl'ze-flt-ur.-f. One that fights publickly for a reward. PROBABILITY,
prob-a-bil'-it-ff Likelihood, appearance of truth, evidence anfing from ..."
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