ringsider

[ ring-sahy-der ]

noun

1. a spectator at or near ringside, as of a boxing match or a nightclub performance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ringsider¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; ringside + -er ¹

Example Sentences

She had to cool off one ringsider with "I only sing these songs; I don't live them."

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The cameras zeroed in for an endless moment, and better than any ringsider, the stay-at-home boxing buff saw the tragic picture of a fighter who had been all but killed in the ring.

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"God, I can't look," shuddered the ringsider.

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When he had played through Laura once, one ringsider turned to the other.

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The manly art of modified murder, as the late ringsider W. O. McGeehan called it, has supplied Budd Schulberg, 33, with a subject even seamier than the gaudy and greedy Hollywood of his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run?

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