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A boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize
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prizefight
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Word definitions for prizefight in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ No other event in sport, except possibly a prizefight , is as punishing, as demanding of the mind and body.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A professional boxing match, in which two boxers compete for a prize (usually money).
Usage examples of prizefight.
The prizefighting apes and tigers will die all in good time in the course of natural evolution, but they will not die so long as the cowardly, somnambulistic apes and tigers club and scratch and slash.
Prizefighting, formerly sneered at as just one of the national aberrations of la perfide Albion, was now the chief topic of conversation at every zinc and every café table.
But he'd had time to appreciate her thinking, to realize that, from her point of view, innocent of prizefights, coming here had been not only the obvious step but one she'd felt compelled to take.
It was tragic, and nobody wanted it to happen, but it didn't stop prizefights from taking place, and it didn't stop people from wanting to see them.
He wasn't a pugilist by any means, but he'd watched a number of prizefights on the seamy side of Philly, enough to pick up a few tricks.