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Prizefighter

noun
1.
A professional boxer.  Synonym: gladiator.





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"Prizefighter" Quotes from Famous Books



... passages, past many doors, he followed him, until they left the noise of the revelry behind, and at last, at the end of a long dark passage, the prizefighter suddenly threw open a ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... who opened the door, Gleave the bald-headed manservant who had grown old along with his master with the same resentfulness—the ex-prizefighter, sailor, lumberman and adventurer who had thrown in his lot with Cumberland Ludlow, the sportsman, when both were in the full flush of middle age. His limp, the result of an epoch-making fight in an Australian mining camp, was emphasized ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton


Words linked to "Prizefighter" :   Ali, Manassa Mauler, Jim Corbett, Louis, Liston, Charles Liston, Tunney, pugilist, featherweight, lightweight, gladiator, James John Corbett, cruiserweight, boxer, James Joseph Tunney, welterweight, Corbett, Jack Dempsey, Mike Tyson, prizefight, Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Marciano, Rocco Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, middleweight, William Harrison Dempsey, Sonny Liston, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Joseph Louis Barrow, Gene Tunney, Dempsey, Tyson, Robinson, Walker Smith, Michael Gerald Tyson, heavyweight, light heavyweight, Gentleman Jim, Rocky Marciano, Cassius Clay


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