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postboxing

postboxing adjective: after a career in the sport of boxing.

Adjective

postboxing (not comparable)

  1. (rare) After a career in the sport of boxing.
    • The film, along with a memoir that is still in its early stages — Mr. Tyson is collaborating with the author Larry Sloman, who has ghostwritten autobiographies for Howard Stern and Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers — are two parts of an effort that Mr. Tyson’s advisers...2008 May 11, Tim Arango, “Mike Tyson Film Takes a Swing at His Old Image”, in New York Times

Origin of postboxing

From post- + boxing.

Questions about postboxing

What does postboxing mean?
Postboxing means after a career in the sport of boxing.
What part of speech is postboxing?
Postboxing is an adjective.

Words near postboxing in the dictionary

  1. postbottleneck
  2. postbounce
  3. postbourgeois
  4. postbox
  5. postboxes
  6. postboxing
  7. postboy
  8. postboys
  9. postbrachial
  10. postbrachytherapy
  11. postbranchial

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