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boxcars

/boks-kahr/US // ˈbɒksˌkɑr //UK // (ˈbɒksˌkɑː) //

箱型车,箱式车,盒式车,箱式货车

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Railroads. a completely enclosed freight car.
    • : boxcars, a pair of sixes on the first throw of the dice in the game of craps.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Informal. extremely or disproportionately large: The business had boxcar profits during its first year.

Examples

  • Game pieces include two stacks of cards, a black typewriter holding the rules, 60 yellow wooden pawns, and six gray model boxcars.

  • A figure was running along the top of the boxcars toward the engine, looking frantically over his shoulder every few minutes.

  • Where is the window to which you went afterwards to look out when you saw the police and other agents searching boxcars?

  • The company, which controls the railroad spur, also has control too over the boxcars that are on the track.

  • Bunny and Sue crossed the street and walked along the string of boxcars, looking into those the doors of which were open.

  • One day all of us who were able to walk were made to fall in and march over to the railroad, where we were loaded into boxcars.