prize ringn.
/ˈprʌɪz ˌrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpraɪz ˌrɪŋ/ A ring or enclosed space used for prizefighting; a boxing ring. Also in extended use: the practice or sport of prizefighting; prizefighting or prizefighters in general (cf. turf n.1 4a). Also attributive.
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1821 Times 8 Jan. 3/3 This challenge was immediately taken up with some warmth by an old London fancier, who felt for the pride of the Metropolitan prize ring.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiv. 588 Captain Rook with his horse-jockey jokes and prize-ring slang.
1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 17 Oct. 2/2 Better..not to introduce into political controversy the language of the prize-ring.
1928 Cent. Mag. Aug. 444/1 In the prize-ring the gamest fighters are the Mexican boys.
1956 Daily Mail 26 Apr. 1/1 They are called champions of the prize ring but on Tuesday they appeared as two fat and horizontal lie-abouts.
1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 473/1 [Thomas Molineaux] was born a Virginia slave, and is reputed to have won his freedom in the American prize-ring.
2005 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 27 Oct. d1 Mike Hull—a 30-year-old light-heavyweight..—is going to step into the prize ring and box a kid named Billy Drywater.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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