BOXER


Meaning of BOXER in English

noun one who packs boxes.

2. boxer ·noun one who boxes; a pugilist.

3. boxer ·add. ·noun a member of a powerful chinese organization which committed numerous outrages on europeans and christian converts in the uprising against foreigners in 1900. various names, as "league of united patriots" and "great knife [or sword] society," have been given as the chinese name of the organization; why the members were called boxers is uncertain.

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