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boxcar
[ boks-kahr ]
noun
- Railroads. a completely enclosed freight car.
- boxcars, a pair of sixes on the first throw of the dice in the game of craps.
adjective
- Informal. extremely or disproportionately large:
The business had boxcar profits during its first year.
boxcar
/ ˈbɒksˌkɑː /
noun
- a closed railway freight van
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Rick and company are out of the boxcar inside Terminus, the “sanctuary for all” which may or may not be filled with cannibals.
"You had boxcar loads of currency" moving across borders, says Michael Spencer, an economist who has written about this period.
Upon reaching the end of the line, Rob emptied his boxcar and placed 10 yellow pawns on the Dachau card.
But at one point in Cupertino, all but five pawns were on a card or in a boxcar.
When Rob was the first to move a boxcar to the end of the line, he followed the rules and drew a Terminus card.
I recognized the reddish tan that comes from facing a hot wind on the top of a moving boxcar.
Behind the engine was a vehicle like a boxcar low hung on wheels.
I was sleeping in a boxcar and they put that boxcar on a tugboat and sent it across the river.
Blackie Bauer had been sitting in a boxcar with his legs sticking through the door when the train started with a jerk.
With Dan he darted to the boxcar whose door had been pulled shut from the inside.
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