Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fully enclosed railroad car, typically having sliding side doors, used to transport freight.
- n. Games A pair of sixes on the first throw in craps.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An inclosed and covered freight-car.
Wiktionary
- n. US An enclosed railroad freight car, especially one with a sliding door (traditionally used by hobos).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Railroads) a freight car covered with a roof and inclosed on the sides to protect its contents.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides
Examples
“Hobos call a boxcar a wide-screen TV," says Snyder, dressed in a dusty pair of black overalls and layers of sweatshirts and jackets.”
“During the Holocaust he would have been what's called a boxcar loader, helping shove his own people onto the trains bound for Auschwitz then shocked when his political masters tossed him in ...”
“A "boxcar" from the Boxcar Children series was installed.”
“Litvack has opened what's called a "boxcar" bill, HB458, that contains no wording.”
“Frisco already has four employee units slated for new "boxcar" development.”
“Hootman's offices are in a brightly colored railroad boxcar, Pullman and caboose on the property.”
“Playing as a top-six forward on the Caps would certainly help boost his boxcar stats, but with Brooks Laich, Tomas Fleischmann and Alexander Semin in front of him, that will be tough to do barring an injury.”
The Washington Post: Will Eric Fehr have another breakout season?
“If Backstrom continues to be used as Boudreau's No. 1 option for faceoffs in the defensive zone, look for his boxcar stats to take a hit.”
“Feist and his crew hoped to shoot some terrifying footage of transients arriving in California by boxcar, allegedly by invitation of Upton Sinclair.”
“Confederacy and was imprisoned twice by Union forcesonce in the home of fellow spy Rose Greenhow and once in a boxcar in the Gulf of Mexico.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘boxcar’.
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Bach Soar - an a(i)ria
a new balloon nam(e)ing
boxcar, tuism, back soar, back to soaring, weighting inflation, Apsyrtus, ceraunograph
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R/W Masters List #2
The Dare
shard, gravel, array, guerrilla, enigma, dare, whiff, gaze, boxcar, embrace, silhouette, fury and 29 more...
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Pseudorandom words
Words found through Wordie's random word function. I didn't take phrases, foreign, misspelled, or madeupical words, so I looked at about 200 words to assemble this list.
I was surprise...ishkabibble, jericho, inopercular, oppositional, puerility, chronometer, cavern, cisternae, osteospermum, boxcar, misandry, savannah and 88 more...
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Railroading
trackage, belt line, track walkers, bullet train, highballing, intermodal, shortlines, recrew, roadmaster, knuckle-couplers, boxcar, piggybacking and 17 more...
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Box It Up
abox, bandbox, beatbox, boxboard, boxcar, boxful, boxlike, boxy, breadbox, cashbox, chatterbox, firebox and 30 more...
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