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boxer

/ˈbɑksɚ/ noun B2
  1. A participant in a boxing match: a fighter who boxes. · Near-synonyms: pugilist (often synonymous), prizefighter· You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.
  2. A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
  3. The person running a game of two-up.
  4. One who packs boxes.
  5. A letterboxer.

Plural boxers

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Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 15 · B2
I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 1 · B2
The other is Sam Merton, the boxer.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 33 · B2
The boxer still addressed his remarks to his associate.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 42 · B2

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