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Liston noun
- Sonny, real name Charles. 1922–70, US boxer: former world heavyweight champion
Examples from the Web for liston Contemporary Examples of liston
Like Ali to Liston, like George Washington to the Hessians, like Alexander to the Persians: in short, very well.
John Batchelor
November 20, 2009
Historical Examples of liston
Have we not heard how Liston always thought he ought to play Hamlet?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Liston was a teacher more by what he did than by what he said.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 7
Various
His line of acting is a broad-farce caricature of that of Liston.
Various
This was not, however, the only exploit of the kind in which Liston was engaged.
George Mac Gregor
Liston was highly enraged with it, and Lamb was delighted in proportion.
N. Parker Willis