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boxing day
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun boxing day has 1 sense
- boxing day(n = noun.time) Array - first weekday after Christmas; Array is a part of christmas, christmastide, christmastime, noel, yule, yuletide
is a kind of legal holiday, national holiday, public holiday
CIDE DICTIONARY
boxing day,
The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
boxing day, n. the first weekday after Christmas.
Etymology
from the custom of giving tradesmen gifts or money: see BOX(1) n. 2b
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