The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boxing day \Box"ing 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. [Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1809, "first weekday after Christmas," on which postmen and others expect to receive a Christmas present, originally in reference to the custom of distributing the contents of the Christmas box, which was placed in the church for charity collections. See box (n.1). The custom is older than the phrase.
Wiktionary
n. (context business marketing English) the day or days following Christmas (December 25th) where stores have large reductions.
Wikipedia
Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated on the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would traditionally receive gifts known as a "Christmas box" from their masters, employers or customers, in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations. Boxing Day as a bank holiday or public holiday takes place on 26 or 27 December.
In the liturgical calendar of Western Christianity, Boxing Day is the second day of Christmastide, and also St. Stephen's Day. In some European countries, notably Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, 26 December is celebrated as a Second Christmas Day.
Boxing Day is a 2007 Australian film directed by Kriv Stenders.
It was partly funded by the Adelaide Film Festival.
Boxing Day is a Commonwealth holiday. It may also refer to:
- Boxing Day (2007 film), a film by Kriv Stenders
- Boxing Day (2012 film), a film by Bernard Rose
- "Boxing Day", a season 3 episode of the British TV series Bedtime
Boxing Day is a 2012 British film directed by Bernard Rose. The film is roughly based on the Leo Tolstoy short story, Master and Man, and depicts the interactions between an arrogant real estate developer and his unreliable hired chauffeur as they battle the elements during a Boxing Day blizzard in Denver, Colorado.
Usage examples of "boxing day".
I had a fancy that when you brought me back here from the Happy Land restaurant last Boxing Day that we might end up in bed too.
Sal, who was working shifts in a cafe on the Commercial Road, went back to work on Boxing Day, and Grace remained on duty at the London Hospital throughout the so-called holiday, while Kitty mooched around checking on everyone else's presents before going back to bed.
Then Peter Pascoe had let slip that he was planning to spend the break at the Hirtledale Arms, and suddenly Dalziel realised how much he'd been relying on the usual Boxing Day invitation to lunch with the Pascoes.
Brown, scabrous and dank, it's a little like sitting in someone's kidney, but at some point in the last five years it became traditional to meet here every Boxing Day night, and traditions are sacred.
We have crackers and plum pudding with brandy butter and mince pies and a yule log and we drink to excess and, above all, we observe Boxing Day.
You may be able to understand, if you think this over, why all the sportsmen of the castle got up early for the Boxing Day Meet, and ate their breakfast with a certain amount of suppressed feeling.
That dinner party on Boxing Day had thrown my whole emotional and intellectual life out of kilter.
A land of small pleasures, quietly savoured card schools (men and women) on Christmas night, football (men and boys) on Boxing Day, a trip to the local for a game of darts and a couple of pints (men only) when we had guests.
Tucking them round him, she fed the dogs, who appreciated the steak and kidney she was about to freeze for Boxing Day far more than Rannaldini's faddy family ever would.