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The Collaborative International Dictionary
boxy

boxlike \boxlike\ boxy \boxy\adj. resembling a box in rectangularity.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
boxy

1858, from box (n.1) + -y (2). Related: Boxiness.

Wiktionary
boxy

a. box-like or box-shaped.

WordNet
boxy

adj. resembling a box in rectangularity [syn: boxlike]

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Boxy

Boxy is an adjective meaning "like a box". Boxy or alternate spellings may refer to:

Usage examples of "boxy".

After a few moments the seeker saw the shape forming up ahead, the boxy bridge, the pointed bow, the tall central mast and the funnel aft, with the box of the hangar for the Dauphin helicopter and the flat helo-deck aft.

Bram twisted around in his seat to see the human compound, a pebbled polygon of dim chalky spherules and knobs interspersed with the queer new boxy shapes of the wood and stone buildings that the Reconstructionist architects, Arthe among them, were starting to put up.

This morning Adena was wearing knee-high cavalry boots, tight-fitting red pants and a huge, boxy, loosely woven cropped top.

There were toy replicas of emergency vehicles that were boxier, clunkier to her eye than what zipped around the streets or skies of New York.

There was a mixed style of row houses: the more charming wooden ones from the early 1900s and the boxier three- and four-story ones with lots of aluminum detail.

They were a little boxier, the armor not well sloped to deflect a shell.

This one was boxier than the first, and as far as I was concerned, the better choice.

Peering out, he saw a Mercedes 1100 rotate like a top and set down on the ground, followed immediately by a larger, boxier vehicle.

I have this zooty look, the boxy jacket and the python strides, the bright socks and the black suede shoes, the indeterminate, driven-back hair, the beady scaly face, the face of a fat snake, capable of sudden obedience, sudden revolt.

The ferries were boxy vehicles, capable of carrying between twelve and forty passengers, depending on the model.

How long could he endure being trapped in crowded boxy rooms with these statues that brought back that terrible time when love and desire and murderous jealousy had spiraled out of control?

The sun gleamed off windscreens: the windscreens of half-tracks and lorries, and of an odd, boxy van with a steel loop on its roof, like the frame of a giant tennis racket.

What differentiated the Armalite AR-12 Stormcloud from the generation of weap- ons that spawned it was the boxier magazine and larger bore.

At one end the forensic team had set out their equipment, a couple of Philips laptop terminals and various boxy 'ware modules which Eleanor guessed were analysers of some kind, although one looked remarkably like a microwave oven.

It was as if a movie projectionist had just realized he was using the wrong lens and switched, turning boxy thirty-five millimeter into wide-screen Cinerama 70.