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nose-ender en · NOUN

Etymology

From nose + end + -er.

Meanings

  1. (dated, slang) A straight blow delivered full on the nasal promontory.
    • Sayers won first blood by cutting Crouch's right eye, and the battle by knocking his man out with a nose-ender in 12 minutes 28 seconds, 6 rounds being fought. 1879, Ed James, The Lives and Battles of the Champions of England, page 39:

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