Definitions for boxcar

boxcar box·car

Spelling: [boks-kahr]
IPA: /ˈbɒksˌkɑr/

Boxcar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in boxcar (abcorx).

Definitions for boxcar

noun

  1. Railroads. a completely enclosed freight car.
  2. boxcars, a pair of sixes on the first throw of the dice in the game of craps.

adjective

  1. Informal. extremely or disproportionately large:

Origin of boxcar

An Americanism dating back to 1855-60; box1 + car1

Examples for boxcar

"You had boxcar loads of currency" moving across borders, says Michael Spencer, an economist who has written about this period.

Now he hurried to pass down the train to a boxcar with an open door.

Upon reaching the end of the line, Rob emptied his boxcar and placed 10 yellow pawns on the Dachau card.

No sir; this was a caboose of a boxcar, that is what it was, sitting there.

When Rob was the first to move a boxcar to the end of the line, he followed the rules and drew a Terminus card.

Behind the engine was a vehicle like a boxcar low hung on wheels.

Rick and company are out of the boxcar inside Terminus, the “sanctuary for all” which may or may not be filled with cannibals.

I went in and searched this boxcar out, and come out of there, and by that time they were already in the building, I supposed.

But at one point in Cupertino, all but five pawns were on a card or in a boxcar.

The boxcar which had been on the siding near the factory was gone.

Word Value for boxcar
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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