Usually means: Freight train car for cargo.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. boxcar: Merriam-Webster
  2. boxcar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boxcar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boxcar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boxcar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boxcar, boxcar: Wordnik
  7. boxcar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boxcar: Wiktionary
  9. boxcar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boxcar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boxcar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. boxcar: Dictionary.com
  13. boxcar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Boxcar (band), Boxcar (disambiguation), Boxcar (game), Boxcar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. boxcar: Rhymezone
  16. boxcar: FreeDictionary.org
  17. boxcar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. boxcar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. boxcar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boxcar: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boxcar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Boxcar: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (boxcar)

▸ noun:  (rail transport, US) An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
▸ verb:  (mathematics, transitive) To reduce to a boxcar function.

Similar:
box car, box-car, box van, well car, goods van, flatcar, bubble car, container wagon, railcar, rail-carriage, more...

Opposite:
caboose, locomotive, passenger car, freight car

Types:
gondola, caboose, tank car, flat car, stock car, coal car, more...

Phrases:
flying boxcar, boxcar function, Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, The Boxcar Children, Boxcar Bertha, more...

Adjectives:
empty, old, open, first, last, sealed, abandoned, standard, red, foot, converted



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Similar:
box car, box-car, box van, well car, goods van, flatcar, bubble car, container wagon, railcar, rail-carriage, more...

Opposite:
caboose, locomotive, passenger car, freight car

Types:
gondola, caboose, tank car, flat car, stock car, coal car, more...

Phrases:
flying boxcar, boxcar function, Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, The Boxcar Children, Boxcar Bertha, Boxcar Willie, Boxcar averager, more...

Adjectives:
empty, old, open, first, last, sealed, abandoned, standard, red, foot, converted



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