prizefighter

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prize·fight

 (prīz′fīt′)
n.
A match fought between professional boxers for money.
prize′fight′er n.
prize′fight′ing n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.prizefighter - a professional boxerprizefighter - a professional boxer      
gladiator
boxer, pugilist - someone who fights with his fists for sport
featherweight - a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds
heavyweight - a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds
cruiserweight, light heavyweight - a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds
lightweight - a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
middleweight - a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds
welterweight - a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds
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He's a prizefighter, an' all the girls run after him.
She experienced a thrill of wickedness as she thought of what Sarah would say could she see her now, Only he wasn't a prizefighter, but a teamster.
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Coming hastily across the room towards them, already out of breath as though with much hurrying, was a thick-set, powerful man, with the brutal face and coarse lips of a prizefighter; a beard cropped so short as to seem the growth of a few days only covered his chin, and his moustache, treated in the same way, was not thick enough to conceal a cruel mouth.
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A brougham was coming sedately down the street from Piccadilly; to my horror, it stopped behind me as I peered once more through the letter-box, and out tumbled the dishevelled prizefighter and two companions.
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Sometimes, when in the newspapers I happen upon descriptions of our modern bruisers and prizefighters, I wonder what chance the best of them would have had against him.
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Expenses McTaggart won nothing but praise and the distinction of having a sports centre named in his honour in his native Dundee but he recognised the Prizefighter format as memory jogger and money-spinner.
Boxing: GET FELL IN FOR GLORY; Legend Dick backs Prizefighter plan BOXING SPECIAL..
For this is the crazy life of the Gary Lockett-trained fighter who was catapulted from nowhere in January to win a place on Sky's welterweight Prizefighter and then bagged the runners-up prize of PS16,000.
Dale going extra mile for Sky show; Fight Scene Wales Kevin Hayde - the promoter with a punch sport@walesonline.co.uk
CITY boxers Derry Mathews and Stephen Jennings are primed and ready as the action-packed Prizefighter series returns to Liverpool this weekend.
PRIZE NIGHT IS ON CARDS; BOXING Mersey duo set for Olympia showdown Mathews and Jennings in bid for trophy
EAMONN O'KANE'S Prizefighter joy was quickly replaced by despair on Saturday night after his victory was followed by the defeat of his close friend Paul McCloskey.
DUDEY PAIN FOR KING O'KANE; PRIZEFIGHTER NEWS
Cardiff's Buckland is the only man to have beaten the 27-year-old, having stopped him in just 45 seconds in the semi-final of November's Prizefighter tournament.
Sykes set for title defence; Sport briefs
DOUGIE Walton has his fingers crossed an actionpacked ring return at Bedworth Civic Hall on Saturday night will lead to a Prizefighter chance.
Walton in frame for Prizefighter; BOXING
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