prizefighting
English
editEtymology
editSee prizefight. Originally Prize Playing, with play referring to sparring, a practice fight. By surface analysis, prize + fighting.
Noun
editprizefighting (usually uncountable, plural prizefightings)
- (sports) Professional boxing, in which two fighters compete for a prize.
- 2002 September 22, Ron Fried, “VIEW; Separated at Birth: Fashion and Prize Fights”, in The New York Times[1]:
- OF all the people gathered on Ninth Avenue Wednesday night to watch Marc Jacobs's spring 2003 runway show, I'm fairly sure I was the only one thinking about prizefighting.
Related terms
edit- prizefight
- prizefighter
- prizing (obsolete)