boxcar
Americannoun
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Railroads. a completely enclosed freight car.
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boxcars, a pair of sixes on the first throw of the dice in the game of craps.
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of boxcar
Example Sentences
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A train boxcar where six migrants were found dead in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday originated from Long Beach, police officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
He attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for undergrad and continued at its College of Law, working summers in the boxcar factory where his father was employed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
The object of the game is for players to fill a boxcar with tokens and get it to the other side of a board.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
At the funeral in his hometown, a ballad played remembering migrants who suffocated in a Texas boxcar 35 years ago.
From Reuters ● Aug. 1, 2022
In the boxcar, Shin befriended a young man of about twenty who said he was headed home to Gilju, a city of sixty-five thousand people on the main rail line to Chongjin.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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