Fisticuffs vs Boxing - What's the difference?
fisticuffs | boxing |
English plurals
(plurale tantum, informal) An impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people.
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(plurale tantum, sports, dated) Bare-knuckled boxing, a form of boxing done without boxing gloves or similar padding.
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(sports) A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists, the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.
Material used for making boxes or casing.
(construction) Casing.
(programming) Automatical conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.
Boxing is a synonym of fisticuffs.
As nouns the difference between fisticuffs and boxing
is that fisticuffs is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals while boxing is a sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists, the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.As a verb boxing is
present participle of lang=en.fisticuffs
English
Noun
(head)- People who share a cell in the Basti[l]le if they do not immediately fall to fisticuffs , will find some possible ground of compromise.
- In his college days of athletic exercises, Mr. Crisparkle had known professors of the Noble Art of fisticuffs ,
