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box-car

box-car is the alternative form of boxcar.

Meaning of boxcar

Noun (1)

boxcar (plural boxcars)

  1. (US) An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
    • The locomotive pulled one single car, a dilapidated boxcar missing numerous planks in its walls.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 83

Noun (2)

boxcar (plural boxcars)

  1. (attributive) A type of atrophic acne scar that forms a broad, box-like depression on the skin.

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Forms of box-car

pluralbox-cars

Questions about box-car

What is box-car the alternative form of?
Box-car is the alternative form of boxcar.

Words near box-car in the dictionary

  1. box-bed
  2. box-beds
  3. box-calf
  4. box-canyon
  5. box-canyons
  6. box-car
  7. box-cars
  8. box-checker
  9. box-checkers
  10. box-counting dimension
  11. box-counting dimensions

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