Definition of "prize-fighter" [prize-fighter]

• One who fights another with his fists for a wager or reward; a professional pugilist or boxer. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He is a sublimated soul that treads the heights and breathes refined ether — in self-comparison with the prize-fighter."
• "Her clear-eyed, girl-cheeked Joe might be anything but a prize-fighter."
• "He raises his hands in horror at the thought of the brutish prize-fighter, and then sits down and gorges himself on roast beef, rare and red, running blood under every sawing thrust of the implement called a knife."