prize fight

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   a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize

   Synonymsprizefight

   Broaderboxing match

Questions about prize fight

What does prize fight mean?

prize fight means "a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize".

What is another word for prize fight?

Close synonyms include prizefight. 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 prize fight a common word?

prize fight 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.