Boxer |
a member of a Chinese secret society that in 1900 tried unsuccessfully to oust foreigners from the country. |
boxer |
a professional prizefighter. [2 definitions] |
boxer shorts |
men's briefs with an elastic waistband and a loose full cut, similar to that of boxer's trunks. |
boxful |
the amount that a box can or does hold. |
boxing1 |
a material of which boxes are made. [3 definitions] |
boxing2 |
the sport, profession, or technique of fighting with the fists. |
Boxing Day |
December 26, a holiday in the UK and other Commonwealth countries, publicly observed on the first weekday after Christmas. |
boxing gloves |
a heavily padded set of leather gloves of standard weight and design used in boxing. |
box lunch |
an individual light meal, prepared and put in a box to be eaten later, as during travel or at a picnic. |
box office |
the ticket sales office of a theater, concert hall, stadium, or the like. [3 definitions] |
box pleat |
a double pleat with edges folded toward each other. |
box score |
a statistical summary in table form of each player's performance in a game, esp. baseball or basketball. |
box seat |
a seat in a box, usu. offering a better view and some privacy, in a theater, concert hall, stadium, or the like. |
box spring |
a cloth-covered bedspring having rows of individual but connected helical springs inside a boxlike frame. |
box supper |
a social and fund-raising occasion at which the participants bid for donated box lunches. |
boxthorn |
the matrimony vine. |
box turtle |
any of several North American land turtles with a hinged shell that can completely enclose the body; box tortoise. |
boxwood |
the hard, fine-grained, light yellow wood of the box tree or shrub, used for rulers, wood engravers' blocks, musical instruments, and the like. [2 definitions] |
boxy |
like a box, as in shape or confining quality. |
boy |
a male child or adolescent. [4 definitions] |
boycott |
to refuse to buy, use, attend, or deal with (a product, activity, business, or the like), usu. as a protest or means of persuasion. [2 definitions] |