Usually means: Standardized rules for boxing competition.
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  1. queensberry rules: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Queensberry rules: Merriam-Webster
  3. Queensberry rules: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Queensberry rules: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Queensberry rules: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Queensberry rules: Wiktionary
  7. Queensberry rules: Dictionary.com
  8. Queensberry Rules: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Queensberry Rules, Queensberry rules: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Queensberry rules: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Queensberry rules: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Queensberry rules)

▸ noun:  A code of rules governing professional and amateur boxing, published in 1867 and endorsed by the ninth Marquess of Queensberry.

Similar:
Queensberry, Rules, house rule, Aussie rules, boxing time, baseball rule, barroom brawl, noble art, rules of the game, chess boxing, more...

Opposite:
dirty fighting, street fighting, brawling

Phrases:
marquis of queensberry rules, Marquess of Queensberry Rules, the queensberry rules, more...
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Similar:
Queensberry, Rules, house rule, Aussie rules, boxing time, baseball rule, barroom brawl, noble art, rules of the game, chess boxing, more...

Opposite:
dirty fighting, street fighting, brawling

Phrases:
marquis of queensberry rules, Marquess of Queensberry Rules, the queensberry rules, more...



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