Definition of Boxing day

1. Noun. First weekday after Christmas.


Definition of Boxing day

1. Noun. The day after Christmas; the 26th of December. ¹

2. Noun. (business marketing) the day or days following Christmas (December 25th) where stores have large reductions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boxing Day

Bowiesque
Bowman's capsule
Bowman's capsules
Bowman's disks
Bowman's gland
Bowman's muscle
Bowman's probe
Bowman's space
Bowman's theory
Bowman-Birk inhibitor
Bowman Birk protease inhibitors
Bowyer
Boxer
Boxford
Boxing Day
Boy Scout
Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts of America
Boyce
Boyce-Codd normal form
Boyd
Boyd communicating perforation veins
Boyden
Boyden's sphincter
Boyden chamber
Boyer
Boyer's bursa
Boyer's cyst

Literary usage of Boxing day

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Street Ballads by John Ashton (1888)
"boxing day IN 1847. OF all the days throughout the year, There was never one, I say, That could come up in former times, At all to boxing day. ..."

2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Savings Bank withdrawals up to /iio, and National Savings Stamps encashment up to £3; all other offices are closed. Christmas Day. boxing day and Good ..."

3. Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known by George Augustus Sala (1894)
"CHAPTER XIII. PANTOMIMES PAST AND PRESENT. A Theological Professor with a Taste for Horse-racing—An Attempt to Recall Bygone Christmases—boxing day, ..."

4. Mystic London; Or, Phases of Occult Life in the Metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies (1875)
"In a metaphorical and technical sense, Boxing- day is always more or less ... Boxing-day will inevitably be " wetter" in every sense than usual this year, ..."

5. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1879)
"A week of boxing days would be a novelty, and we therefore prefer to suppose that the week in which the boxing day in vacation occurs is what Mr. Coldstream ..."

6. Forty Years of Paris by Walter F. Lonergan (1907)
"... "Journee des Gifles" or a political Boxing-day—Ravachol the dynamiter. ONE of those who were out of favour for many years with the powerful proprietor ..."

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