boxer

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒksə/

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• (US) enPR: bäksʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈbɑksɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɒksə(ɹ)

From box +‎ -er.^[1][2]

boxer (plural boxers)

1. A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.

   You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.

   • 2018 August 9, Alan Burdick, “Science has Resolved the Question of Boxers vs. Briefs”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 November 2020:

     In 1925, boxer shorts were unleashed on the world: loose-fitting underwear for men, featuring an elastic waistband inspired by the shorts worn by boxers. It was underwear for the inner pugilist.

   • 2026 February 9, Jon Caramanica, “Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Review: A History Lesson Full of Puerto Rican Pride”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 February 2026:

     He [Bad Bunny] strode past vendors of coco frio, tacos and piraguas; a pair of boxers sparring; a table of older gentlemen playing dominoes; women at a nail salon.

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.
   • 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn, page 385:

     They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]

5. A letterboxer.
6. Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
   • 1987, Health, volume 19:

     Jockey International, the major boxer maker, has a design for everyone: jungle prints featuring the irrepressible Garfield the cat peeping out between the leaves; […]

   • 2011, Jennie Allen, “Mad”, in Stuck Study: The Places We Get Stuck & the God Who Sets Us Free, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 38:

     My husband, Zac, noticed my laundry shortcomings when his sock and boxer drawer came up empty, and kindly asked if I could please do some laundry.

   • 2012, “Dennis Miller”, in Ronald H. Dykes, “They Wouldn’t Let Us Win”: Jackson County, Alabama, Veterans Relive the Vietnam War, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:

     The boxer-type underwear would tear and get tangled up, and the brief kind would get too binding and hot, so we might not wear either.

• (participant in a boxing match): pugilist
• (type of engine): boxer engine

• box
• boxing

• Tok Pisin: boksa

• wrestler

From German Boxer, from boxen (“to box (strike with the fists)”) + -er.^[3]

boxer (plural boxers)

1. A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.

• Boxer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boxer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• rebox

Named after its glove-like palps.

boxer

1. an unqualified spider in spider fighting, a male with glove-like palps, instead used as a feed

• IPA^(key): [ˈboksɛr]

boxer m anim

1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)
2. boxer (breed of dog)

boxer m inan

1. brass knuckles
2. boxer engine

Borrowed from English boxer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔk.sər/

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• Hyphenation: boxer
• Homophone: bokser

boxer m (plural boxers, diminutive boxertje n)

1. boxer (dog)
2. boxer (engine)
3. short for boxershort
4. nonstandard form of bokser

From German Boxer.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /bɔk.sɛʁ/

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boxer m (plural boxers)

1. boxer (dog)

From English boxer.

• IPA^(key): /bɔk.sɛʁ/

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boxer m (plural boxers)

1. boxer shorts, boxers
2. boxer (engine)

Adapted borrowing of English box +‎ -er.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /bɔk.se/

boxer

1. to box (to fight against (a person) in a boxing match)

• boxe
• boxeur

• → Catalan: boxar

• “boxer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer shorts.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔkser/

boxer m (invariable)

1. boxer shorts, boxers

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

boxer m (invariable)

1. boxer (dog)

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer engine.

boxer m (invariable)

1. boxer (engine)

From English box +‎ -er.

boxer

1. (Jersey) to box

• Hyphenation: bo‧xer

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. boxer (breed of dog)

Borrowed from French boxeur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbok.ser/

boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxeră)

1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)

   Synonym: pugilist

• box
• boxa
• boxare

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

boxer m (plural boxeri)

1. boxer (breed of dog)

• “boxer”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈboɡseɾ/ [ˈboɣ̞.seɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɡseɾ
• Syllabification: bo‧xer

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. (proscribed) alternative spelling of bóxer