(sports, boxing) A comparison of fighters' (usually boxers) skill levels, regardless of what weight class they are in.

Alternative spelling of pound-for-pound

A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. / (metonymically) The people who work for the pound.

(transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly. / (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize. / (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.

A hard blow.

Ellipsis of pound weight. / The translated name of various non-English units of measure / Ellipsis of pound mass. / The translated name of various non-English units of measure

(slang, dated, transitive) To wager a pound on.

To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.

Having undergone pounding. / (slang) Inebriated.

simple past tense and past participle of pound