pugilist in English

noun
1
a boxer, especially a professional one.
Remember that if he wasn't playing football, Hall would be a professional pugilist and probably a bloody good one given that he can knock a player down, even when he didn't mean to throw the punch!
synonyms:boxerfighterprizefighterbruiserpug
noun

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1. Mr Smith, the famous pugilist, is in hard condition.

2. Each pugilist has three statistics, displayed via a bar system.

3. 5 words related to Bantamweight: grappler, matman, wrestler, boxer, pugilist

4. A pugilist flushed with life and strength is entering the ring.

5. Marjorie puts up her fists like a pugilist, groans and pushes him away.

6. He looked a pugilist who a blow to the head and was about to topple.

7. The whole reproval focuses on a azygos computer brief: melee-style pugilist conflict robots of the future.

8. His adversaries include still more cossacks, a border guard or two, a rabbi, and a pugilist.

9. The pugilist blocked his opponent's blows and then put in a sudden right to the jaw.

10. Each of the three men who were about to become my putative godfathers was a former pugilist.

11. Boxer definition, a person who fights as a sport, usually with gloved fists, according to set rules; prize-fighter; pugilist

12. Analogised to a prizefight (irrespective of the fact I'm definitively anti-pugilist--is not boxing, per se, redolent of cock fighting "events" in the U.S

13. The former soldier in the Territorial Army, who wears a black mask, utility belt, Union Flag top, fingerless gloves, combat trousers and military boots, uses his skills as a trained pugilist.