boxing
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Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈbɒksɪŋ/
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/ˈbɑːksɪŋ/
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- General-American
Noun
A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.
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So Ukraine is on the ropes. Using that boxing metaphor, one immediately thinks of the new world heavyweight champion, the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, who was seemingly down and out under the ferocious assault of the giant Tyson Fury, but then came back to win on points at the end of a brutal 12 rounds.
Noun
Material used for making boxes or casing.
Casing.
Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.
Noun
fighting with the fists
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the enclosure of something in a package or box
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boxings