boxcar

plural boxcars · alternative box car · alternative box-car

1. USrail transportAn 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

   Synonyms: covered goods wagon, goods van, box van, van, house car

present singular third person boxcars · participle present boxcarring · participle past boxcarred · past boxcarred · alternative box car · alternative box-car

1. transitivemathematicsTo reduce to a boxcar function.

comparative more boxcar · superlative most boxcar · alternative box car · alternative box-car

1. Extremely large.

   Synonyms: gigantic, enormous, ample, big, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable

plural boxcars · alternative box car · alternative box-car

1. attributiveA type of atrophic acne scar that forms a broad, box-like depression on the skin.