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From box +‎ car.

boxcar (plural boxcars)

1. (rail transport, US) An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.

   Synonyms: (formal in the UK) covered goods wagon, (British and Australian English:) goods van, box van, van

   • 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 83:

     The locomotive pulled one single car, a dilapidated boxcar missing numerous planks in its walls.

• railroad car

• boxcar function

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boxcar (third-person singular simple present boxcars, present participle boxcarring, simple past and past participle boxcarred)

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

boxcar (comparative more boxcar, superlative most boxcar)

1. Extremely large.^[1]

   Synonyms: gigantic, enormous; see also Thesaurus:large

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boxcar (plural boxcars)

1. (attributive, followed by "scar") A type of atrophic acne scar that forms a broad, box-like depression on the skin.^[2]

   Hypernym: atrophic scar

   Coordinate terms: icepick scar, rolling scar