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box·car  (bkskär)
n.
1. A fully enclosed railroad car, typically having sliding side doors, used to transport freight.
2. boxcars Games A pair of sixes on the first throw in craps.
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Noun1.boxcars - (usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
12, dozen, twelve, XII - the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one


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There was said to be two thousand dollars a week hush money from the tubercular steers alone; and as much again from the hogs which had died of cholera on the trains, and which you might see any day being loaded into boxcars and hauled away to a place called Globe, in Indiana, where they made a fancy grade of lard.
 
 
 
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