Crossword clues for boxcars
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of boxcar English) 2 (context slang English) Double six in a dice game with two dice.
WordNet
n. (usually plural) when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots the result is called `boxcars'
Wikipedia
Boxcars, also known as Midnight, is the outcome of rolling the dice in a game of craps and getting a 6 on each die. The pair of 6 pips resembles a pair of boxcars on a freight train. In modern parlance, it refers to such a roll in any game involving 6 sided dice which are marked with pips. The probability of this roll is 1 in 36, or about 2.8%. This is the same probability as for rolling any other specific pair with the dice.
Usage examples of "boxcars".
Most of the bullets were fired at the boxcars, which the rebels fondly imagined contained a fortune in plunder that was being denied them.
It was hauling a train of boxcars that rattled and swayed under the moonlit smoke.
The engine had stopped a few yards short of the bridge over Broad Run, while, fifty yards behind, the last dozen boxcars still stood upright on the undamaged track.
Truslow appeared beside Starbuck and nodded toward the stalled boxcars, where the twin red lamps still glowed to reflect on the steel rails.
There was a passenger car behind the tender, and screams sounded from the chaos as the boxcars crashed in behind.
The last boxcars stopped upright in the depot itself, while deep among the wreckage at the front of the train a fierce fire started to burn.
Between the huge warehouses were weed-strewn rail spurs where more materials were stored in boxcars and where long, low gondola cars carried brand-new field guns.
Horse, only to plunge into the stacks of boxes and barrels and crates that were piled in the vast, dim warehouse and inside the adjacent boxcars and wagons.
The daylight was fading, its twilight obscured by the myriad of fires that burned among the wagons and boxcars, and Starbuck expected imminent orders to move away from the fiery smoke pillars that were surely serving as beacons to draw every Northern soldier within twenty miles.