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prizefighter

noun

Etymology

From prize + fighter or prizefight + -er (“person, agent”). See prizefight for sense development.

  1. inherited from feohtere
  2. inherited from fightere
  3. formed as prizefighter — “prize + fighter”

Definitions

  1. A professional boxer.

    • “Champion Victory Wreath No. III,” a watercolor by Richard Yarde in which he applies his inventiveness to the prizefighter Jack Johnson.
    • The Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, the Brooklyn gym that is the center of Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen's wrenching documentary "On the Ropes," is much more than a neighborhood training facility for aspiring prizefighters.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA