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passive boxes

passive boxes is the plural of passive box.

Meaning of passive box

Noun

passive box (plural passive boxes)

  1. A defensive formation that a shorthanded team may use during a penalty kill, whereby four players remain in a box formation in front of their goaltender.

Questions about passive boxes

What is passive boxes the plural of?
Passive boxes is the plural of passive box.

Words near passive boxes in the dictionary

  1. passive armour
  2. passive armours
  3. passive attack
  4. passive attacks
  5. passive box
  6. passive boxes
  7. passive defense
  8. passive defenses
  9. passive euthanasia
  10. passive gravitational mass
  11. passive gravitational masses

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