boxcar
Plural: boxcars
Noun
- A roofed railroad freight car, typically enclosed and used for general cargo.
- a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides
- An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
- A type of atrophic acne scar that forms a broad, box-like depression on the skin.
Verb
- To reduce to a boxcar function.
Adj
- Extremely large.
Examples
- Her opponent laid down BOXCAR, effectively blocking any future plays in that lane.
Origin / Etymology
From box + car.
Synonyms
Brobdingnagian, Daniel Lambertish, Pythonic, ample, astronomic, behemothic, big, big fat, bodacious, box van, boxcar, broad, bulky, colossal, commodious, considerable, covered goods wagon, cyclopean, elephantic, elephantine, enormous, expansive, full, gargantuan, generous, giant, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, ginormous, goods van, grand, great, great big, hefty, hench, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, long, mahoosive, mammoth, massive, mastodonic, mega-, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsized, overlarge, oversize, oversized, pantagruelian, prodigious, pyramidal, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, stupendous, super-, supersized, tall, titanic, tremendous, van, vast, voluminous, whopping, wide, yuge
Scrabble Score: 17
boxcar: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordboxcar: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
boxcar: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary