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boxerly

boxerly adjective: befitting or typical of a boxer.

Adjective

boxerly (comparative more boxerly, superlative most boxerly)

  1. Befitting or typical of a boxer.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of boxerly

comparativemore boxerly
superlativemost boxerly

Origin of boxerly

From boxer + -ly.

Questions about boxerly

What does boxerly mean?
Boxerly means befitting or typical of a boxer.
What part of speech is boxerly?
Boxerly is an adjective.

Words near boxerly in the dictionary

  1. boxer-briefs
  2. boxer-short
  3. boxercise
  4. boxered
  5. Boxerism
  6. boxerly
  7. boxers
  8. Boxers Creek
  9. boxes
  10. boxes and coxes
  11. boxes and locks

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