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Boxers

noun

Underpants worn by men. Synonyms: boxershorts, drawers, shorts, underdrawers.

Boxer

noun

Someone who fights with his fists for sport. Synonym: pugilist.

A workman employed to pack things into containers. Synonyms: bagger, packer.

A member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China.

A breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany.

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"Boxers" Quotes from Famous Books

... stood greatly in need of his assistance, I tried to flatter his tastes, and he was so pleased with me that he immediately wished to show me how his trained boxers fought, and he led the way into a kind of ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) - Boule de Suif and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... preoccupied man. He walks a little to and fro, pausing between his short, sparse sentences. When he talks of the Germans he has a way of settling his head and neck with a slight defiant shake well between his shoulders. I have seen the gesture in experienced boxers and in men of business when openly or implicitly challenged. It is just as if he had said: "Wait a bit! I shall get even with that lot—and let no one imagine the contrary!" From the personality of the man there emanates all the time a pugnacious ...

— Over There • Arnold Bennett

... the kid showed at the table again, looking kind of dazed. I was drunker than I ought to be by midnight, so I said I was going for a walk. He tagged along and we wound up on a bench at Screwball Square. The soap-boxers were still going strong. Like I said, it was a nice night. After a while, a pot-bellied old auntie who didn't give a damn about the face sat down and tried to talk the kid into going to see some etchings. The kid didn't get it and I led him ...

— The Altar at Midnight • Cyril M. Kornbluth

... bar has been lately occupied with a question relating to a patent for pins' heads. The costs are estimated at L5000. The lawyers are the best boxers, after all. Only let them get a head in chancery, even a pin's, and see how they make the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 7, 1841 • Various

... impossible boxers. After their initial distrust had evaporated under my gentle handling of them, they forgot all I had taught them about position and guards. They bored in, heads down and arms going like semicircular pistons. Once or twice I had to stop them. They were easily steadied. They hastened ...

— Not George Washington - An Autobiographical Novel • P. G. Wodehouse

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