noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a champion swimmer/boxer/cyclist etc
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Lester Piggott is a former champion jockey.
boxer shorts
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
amateur
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He'd been a successful amateur boxer before he joined Plummer's organisation.
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It's not that he's 27 years old or an amateur boxer , but that he's black.
black
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Molineaux was the first of the great black boxers .
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We have black runners and black boxers , and they participate with everybody.
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More black boxers were becoming active during the same decade.
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Answers came in the form of an alternative world championship for the excluded black boxers .
good
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But not necessarily in a negative way: he had used his blackness to become a better boxer .
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He told me that short, strong arms were good for a boxer .
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Coming down was Tony Butcher - he was a good boxer .
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He calls the two Castor, tamer of horses, Polydeuces, good as a boxer .
professional
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He did a stint on a chain gang, and he became a professional boxer for a while.
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Right then, I really envied the professional boxers , with their rules and regulations and watchful doctors on hand.
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Husband John used to be a professional boxer ... and has beaten former heavyweight champ Joe Bugner on more than one occasion.
■ NOUN
heavyweight
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He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer .
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Sometimes there were famous guests: heavyweight boxers , film actresses, war heroes, prime ministers.
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He was the first heavyweight boxer to win the world championship three times. 2.
■ VERB
wear
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Nat let him in and went to fetch Tony who appeared wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a big smile.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a heavyweight boxer
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Critics seem to view this as a cowardice, as if a boxer should want his brains pulped.
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He calls the two Castor, tamer of horses, Polydeuces, good as a boxer .
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His health was clearly failing, but he did what he always expected his boxers to do.
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Indeed, standing in his vest, his eyes closed, he was swaying like a punch-drunk boxer .
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The body carried no identification and was dressed only in boxer shorts, trainers, a shirt and tie and jacket.
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The walkers still have some finger nails left and don't have skid marks in their boxer shorts.
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Underpants on the head -- Since boxers became an external pants accent, briefs have gone the way of spats.