boxer:
(plural: ‘boxers‘)
two boxers boxing in a boxing competition
a sports person who fights his opponent with closed fists (now with boxing gloves on hands) in a boxing ring;
a pugilist;
a worker who packs things into boxes, usually working for Packers and Movers or for factories that make small items that are needed to be packed in boxes,
a boxer packing things into boxes
Wladimir Klitschko is the present World Champion boxer.
There are different categories of boxers: lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, heavyweight and super heavyweight, and two type of boxers: professional boxers, boxers who fight for money, and amateur boxers, boxers who fight for fun and exercise.
Jason & Jason are a packing company, and they need a couple of boxers to pack things into boxes on contract basis.
(boxers of the China Boxer Rebellion)
Note 2: ‘Boxer’, always with a capital “B”, was a member of a secret society in China that tried hard but unsuccessfully to expel foreigners from China and to force Chinese Christians to give up their belief in 1900, which is called ‘China boxer rebellion’.
Note 3: Another equally common meaning is ‘a breed of dog’.
a boxer — a breed of dog
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