gene tunney

1. 1.

   United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978)

   SynonymsTunneyJames Joseph Tunney

   Broaderprizefighter

Questions about gene tunney

What does gene tunney mean?

gene tunney means "United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978)".

What is another word for gene tunney?

Close synonyms include Tunney, James Joseph Tunney. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gene tunney a common word?

gene tunney is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.