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boxcar en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From box + car.

Meanings

1. Extremely large.

Forms

Synonyms

substantial · cyclopean · stonking · roomy · outsized · humongous · vast · pyramidal · liberal · giantesque · honkin' · wide · prodigious · mahoosive · bulky · stupendous · tall · mountainous · great · overlarge · behemothic · giant · gigantic · gargantuan · exceeding · Daniel Lambertish · elephantine · huge · larger than life · mammoth · monumental · enormous · colossal · oversize · hulking · hench · whopping · tremendous · spacious · hefty · supersized · oversized · immane · astronomic · elephantic · cosmic · massive · considerable · expansive · mastodonic · boxcar · gigantic · Pythonic · yuge · full · gigantuan (colloquial · nonstandard)) · big · mega- · super- · enormous · broad · titanic · gigantesque · long · big fat · generous · bodacious · good-sized · hunormous · jumbo · largifical · great big · ginormous · sizeable · leviathan · pantagruelian · rotund · commodious · voluminous · Brobdingnagian · grand · ample · monstrous · immense

boxcar en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From box + car.

Meanings

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:

Forms

Deriveds

boxcar function

Hypernyms

railroad car

Relateds

flatcar

Synonyms

covered goods wagon · goods van · house car · box van · van

Translations (10)

es furgón (enclosed goods wagon) · cs krytý vůz (enclosed goods wagon) · cs skříňový vůz (enclosed goods wagon) · et kaubavagun (enclosed goods wagon) · fi umpivaunu (enclosed goods wagon) · pl furgonetka (enclosed goods wagon) · ru това́рный ваго́н (enclosed goods wagon) · cs uzavřený vůz (enclosed goods wagon) · sv sluten godsvagn (enclosed goods wagon) · es vagón (enclosed goods wagon)

boxcar en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From box + car.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To reduce to a boxcar function.

Forms

boxcar en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

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Meanings

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

Forms

Hypernyms

atrophic scar