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Definition of Prizefight
1. Noun. A boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize.
2. Verb. Box for a prize or money.
Generic synonyms: Box
Derivative terms: Prize Fight, Prizefighter
Definition of Prizefight
1. Noun. A professional boxing match, in which two boxers compete for a prize (usually money). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prizefight
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prizefight
Literary usage of Prizefight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vagabond Journeys; the Human Comedy at Home and Abroad by Percival Pollard (1911)
"Ill A prizefight BY WHITECHAPEL RULES LEST it be supposed that details only polite
or political are to be emphasized in this glance at life in London, ..."
2. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1882)
"It was proved that tlie prisoners were in a crowd, which surrounded a ring, formed
by ropes supported by posts, where a prizefight was going on ; that thai/ ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"The term "prizefight" has no technical legal meaning. The Century Dictionary
defines it as -'a pugilistic encounter or boxing match for prize or wager," and ..."
4. The Cost of Competition: An Effort at the Understanding of Familiar Facts by Sidney Armor Reeve (1906)
"... fair prizefight, where two strong men stand face to face and pummel each other
into insensibility,—if, indeed, the thing be not a money-making farce, ..."
5. History of Ohio: The Rise and Progress of an American State by Emilius Oviatt Randall, Daniel Joseph Ryan (1912)
"... in their judgment, the projected affair would not be at all a mere emulative
display of technical physical skill, but a frank and brutal prizefight, ..."
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