means A combat sport and martial art that blends boxing-style punches with kicks, typically fought standing in a ring.

from A plain English compound of 'kick' and 'boxing,' coined in the mid-20th century as Western practitioners fused karate-style kicking with the punches of boxing. The Japanese promoter Osamu Noguchi is often credited with popularizing the term in the 1960s for a hybrid built partly on Thai boxing; 'kick' itself is old and likely Scandinavian in root, while 'box' as 'to fight with fists' is of obscure origin but in English since at least the 1500s.