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boxesnoun1pl. of box a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting thingsfilled a whole box with books bins, caddies, cases, caskets, chests, lockers, trunks cartons, cratesfootlockers, lockers, sea chestscoffers, lockboxes, safe-deposit boxes, safes, strongboxescoffinscompartments, vaultscanteenscaissons, hope chestsminaudièresbandboxes, hatboxes, jewel boxes, snuffboxes, tinderboxes a boxlike container for holding a dead bodythe only way I'm ever leaving this hospital room is in a box an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and soundwould you switch on the box so that we can watch the news? a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapewith our new home still unfinished, and the buyers of our condo eager to move in, we were in a real box binds, catch-22's(or catch-22s), corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, impasses, jackpots(chiefly West), jams, mires, pickles, predicaments, quagmires, rabbit holes, rattraps, spots, sticky wickets, swamps difficulties, nodeshot waters, soupspinches, plights, quandaries, scrapes, troublesdeadlocks, halts, logjams, stalemates, standstillsclutches, crises, crossroads, emergencies, exigencies, junctures, straits kettles of fish boxesnoun2pl. of boxa hard strike with a part of the body or an instrumentthe vicious bully delivered a box to the child's ear bangs, bashes, bats, beats, belts, biffs, blows, bops, buffets, busts, chops, claps, clips, clouts, cracks, cuffs, dabs, douses(British), fillips, hacks, haymakers, hits, hooks, knocks, larrups(dialect), lashes, licks, pelts, picks, plumps, pokes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slugs, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, stingers, stripes, strokes, swats, swipes, switches, thuds, thumps, thwacks, wallops, welts, whacks, whams, whops(also whaps) counterblows(or counter-blows), counterpunches, counters, counterstrokes(or counter-strokes)body blows, hands, kicks, knees, lefts, one-twos, rabbit punches, right-handers, rights, roundhouses, shivers, sidewinders, sucker punches, swings, uppercutscrunchers, kayos, knockdowns, knockouts, KOsbastinadoes(or bastinades), batterings, beatings, drubbings, lickings, pastings, thrashingswallopings, whippings, whips boxesverbpresent tense third-person singular of boxto deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous mannerhis mother threatened to box his ears if he didn't show a bit more respect bangs, bashes, bats, belts, biffs, bludgeons, bobs, bonks, bops, busts, claps, clips, clobbers, clocks, clouts, cracks, hammers, hits, knocks, nails, pastes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slogs, slugs, smacks, smites, socks, strikes, swats, swipes, tags, thumps, thwacks, wallops, whacks, whales, zaps batters, beats, buffets, bungs, chops, cuffs, drubs, laces, lambastes(or lambasts), licks, mangles, mauls, pelts, peppers, pommels, pummels, roughsscuffsbunts, flicks, strokes, tapsbumps, butts, jabs, jostles, kicks, knees, pokes, prods, pushes, shoves, stampsbowls (down or over), creams, decks, dumps(slang), fells, floors, knocks down, levelsrabbit-punches, sucker punchescanes, clubs, cudgels, flails, flogs, lashes, saps, slashes, sledgehammers, sledges, spears, stabs, switches, thrashes, whipsbeans, brains, conks, skulls hangs one on |