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boxerly en · ADJ

Etymology

From boxer + -ly.

Meanings

1. Befitting or typical of a boxer.
   • The other men at work, nine or ten of them, were pursuing more boxerly activities. Skipping rope, punching bags, shadowboxing, breathing through the nose. 2011, Jack Batten, Crang Plays the Ace:
   • Lenny boasts that he's been sutured in most capitals of Europe and had his fractured jaw wired in Atlantic City. He balls his massive hands into fists and strikes his boxerly pose, carries his left so low I'm sure that even I could catch him flush. 2010, T. R. Pearson, Glad News of the Natural World:

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