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- noun Plural form of
boxcar . - noun slang Double six in a
dice game with two dice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots
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Examples
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They came here and lived in boxcars, raised their families here and became our early residents.
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Somebody who actually rode in boxcars to a German concentration camp?
Think Progress » “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever” 2005
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Somebody who actually rode in boxcars to a German concentration camp?
Think Progress » “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever” 2005
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By contrast, the Galactica has to drag along a ragtag fugitive fleet where most of the people live in boxcars.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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By contrast, the Galactica has to drag along a ragtag fugitive fleet where most of the people live in boxcars.
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross vs. Battlestar Galactica 2009
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"boxcars" -- razor knives -- to inflict damage: an Asian girl, it was said, was cut up bad, and a non-skin nearly lost an eye.
Chicago Reader 2010
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The last time they did it, they cut away early to let Bill "boxcars" Bennett spin the debate before it was even finished and displayed banners calling it the "Democrat" party debate.
Hullabaloo 2007
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The last time they did it, they cut away early to let Bill "boxcars" Bennett spin the debate before it was even finished and displayed banners calling it the "Democrat" party debate.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Appearing in April, "American Letters: 1927-1947" Polity, 252 pages, $25 , a collection of the Pollock family correspondence, bears witness to the hardscrabble reality of the artist's upbringing amid boxcars and barren homesteads—the incubator of his creative vision.
A Painter in Her Own Right Jonathan Lopez 2011
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I worked a ta community theare that was a repurposed trainstation, the dressing rooms were repurposed passenger cars and the prop and costume closets were repurposed boxcars.
bilby commented on the word boxcars
WeirdNET reveals misspent youth at the craps table.
April 15, 2008