What is "prizefighter"

Usage examples of "prizefighter".

It was frequented by Broadwayites of shabby reputation, a sprinkling of cheap prizefighters, and quite a few of the more sporty figures in the underworld.

He never dared to appear in public without a bodyguard of prizefighters, and even so was nearly killed by mobs on several occasions.

My heart sunk into my boots when I heard you was runnin' with a prizefighter.

Now, at fifty-five, he might be mistaken for a prizefighter who stayed in the sport too long: cauliflower ears, portobello nose, the humility of a basically sweet palooka who has learned the hard way that brute strength does not a champion make.

The Chosen had beefed up the port defenses considerably, and while he had what looked like perfect intelligence on them, knowing exactly how a 250-pound prizefighter would throw a right hook did you little good if you were a ninety-pound weed with a glass jaw.

Instead, she had lost the Lady Prizefighter Amazon Class World Championship to an unpleasant bit of baggage from California, a peroxide blonde with more plastic parts than a Barbie doll.

They were too busy eyeing each other like prizefighters stepping into the ring.

It was he who took him to that horrid tavern they call Cribb’s Parlour, where he meets all the prizefighters he is for ever talking about.

We were carefully polite, as we often are, and after we'd circled one another like first-round prizefighters she asked me why I'd called.

He felt like a prizefighter saved by the bell, because he didn't know.