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boxed

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bɒkst//
  • United Kingdom//ˈbɑːkst//

Packed into a box or boxes.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of boxsimple past and past participle of box

adjective

  1. 1

    Packed into a box or boxes.

    The books are boxed, ready for shipping.

  2. 2

    In bridge and other card games if the cards in a pack are reversed face-up and face-down then the pack is said to be boxed.

  3. 3

    Of domesticated animals, discrete flocks or herds having become mixed, either accidentally or deliberately. (Aust. OED)

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).