prizefighter

English

From prize +‎ fighter or prizefight +‎ -er (“person, agent”). See prizefight for sense development.

prizefighter (plural prizefighters)

A professional boxer.
- 1977 December 16, Hilton Kramer, “Art: Requiem For a Heavyweight”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  “Champion Victory Wreath No. III,” a watercolor by Richard Yarde in which he applies his inventiveness to the prizefighter Jack Johnson.
- 1999 August 18, Stephen Holden, “FILM REVIEW; For Three Aspiring Prizefighters, the Prize Is Hope”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:
  The Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, the Brooklyn gym that is the center of Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen's wrenching documentary "On the Ropes," is much more than a neighborhood training facility for aspiring prizefighters.