boxcar

See also: box-car and box car

English

Etymology

box +‎ car

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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.

Alternative forms

• box car
• box-car

Synonyms

• goods van (UK)

Hypernyms

• railroad car

Derived terms

• boxcar function

Translations

enclosed goods wagon

• Estonian: kaubavagun (et)
• Finnish: umpivaunu
• Polish: furgonetka (pl)
• Russian: това́рный ваго́н (ru) m (továrnyj vagón)
• Swedish: sluten godsvagn c

See also

• flatcar

Verb

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.