Usually means: Fighter specializing in hand combat.
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  1. pugilist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pugilist: Merriam-Webster
  3. pugilist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pugilist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pugilist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pugilist, pugilist: Wordnik
  7. pugilist: Wiktionary
  8. pugilist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. pugilist: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pugilist, pugilist: Dictionary.com
  11. pugilist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Pugilist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Pugilist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. pugilist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. pugilist: Rhymezone
  16. Pugilist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. pugilist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. pugilist: FreeDictionary.org
  19. pugilist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. pugilist: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pugilist: Legal dictionary

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  1. pugilist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pugilist: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pugilist: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pugilist: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  One who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer.
noun:  (figurative) One who engages in rhetorical attacks on behalf of another.

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