prizefighter

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Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

• We no longer have prizefights where people batter each other to death.

• She trained for Justine like a prizefighter trains for an opponent, studying her every decision from inside out.

• There the housekeeper selected a driver, a burly man who looked as if he might have been an ex-prizefighter.

• I raised my arms over my head like a prizefighter and made my exit from Social Studies and began the perp-walk to the office.

• Peggy scowled and doubled up her fists, thinking of a picture of a prizefighter that she had once seen.

• He was a well-known prizefighter that young Sales Wilson had picked up and brought down to teach the boys.

• We rarely find an artist who takes much interest in jurisprudence, or a prizefighter who is an acute metaphysician.