boxer

noun

1. A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.

   “You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.”

   “In 1925, boxer shorts were unleashed on the world: loose-fitting underwear for men, featuring an elastic waistband inspired by the shorts worn by boxers. It was underwear for the inner pugilist.”

   “He [Bad Bunny] strode past vendors of coco frio, tacos and piraguas; a pair of boxers sparring; a table of older gentlemen playing dominoes; women at a nail salon.”

2. A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
3. The person running a game of two-up.
4. One who packs boxes.

   “They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]”

5. A letterboxer.
6. (attributive, form-of)Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).

   “Jockey International, the major boxer maker, has a design for everyone: jungle prints featuring the irrepressible Garfield the cat peeping out between the leaves; […]”

   “My husband, Zac, noticed my laundry shortcomings when his sock and boxer drawer came up empty, and kindly asked if I could please do some laundry.”

   “The boxer-type underwear would tear and get tangled up, and the brief kind would get too binding and hot, so we might not wear either.”

7. A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
8. (historical)A Chinese anti-imperial and xenophobic rebel of the early 1900s.

name

1. A surname.