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Definition of Boxer

Boxer

  1. One who packs boxes.
  2. One who boxes; a pugilist.
  3. A member of a powerful Chinese organization which committed numerous outrages on Europeans and Christian converts in the uprising against foreigners in 1900. Various names, as "League of United Patriots" and "Great Knife [or Sword] Society," have been given as the Chinese name of the organization; why the members were called Boxers is uncertain.

Boxer Quotations

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
Hillary Clinton

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
Sophocles

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.
Liam Neeson

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.
Hugh Jackman
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Boxer Translations

boxer in Afrikaans is bokser
boxer in Danish is bokser
boxer in Dutch is bokser
boxer in French is pugiliste
boxer in Italian is pugile
boxer in Spanish is boxeador
boxer in Swedish is boxare

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