Boxing Day Definition

noun
December 26, a legal holiday in most parts of the Commonwealth: so called from the former custom of giving gift boxes to employees, mail carriers, etc.
Webster's New World

(business, marketing) The day or days following Christmas (December 25th) where stores have large reductions.

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The day after Christmas; the 26th of December.

There are plenty of discounted Christmas items in the Boxing Day sale.
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Noun

Singular:
Boxing Day
Plural:
boxing-days

Origin of Boxing Day

  • Perhaps because of boxes that were placed outside churches to collect special offerings tied to the Feast of St Stephen, or because of the old British custom of tradesmen collecting "Christmas boxes" of money or presents on the first weekday after Christmas as thanks for good service (mentioned by diarist Samuel Pepys).

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  • Derived from Boxing Day

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Boxing Day Sentence Examples

  • The highlight being on Boxing Day with our star cabaret.

  • On Boxing day and New Year's Day, an old tradition is to don blackface and parade through the town singing minstrel songs.

  • Twelve week old crossbreed, Turkey, was abandoned in a cardboard box outside Dogs Trust Newbury on Boxing Day last year.

  • We have six for dinner tomorrow, including four cats but boxing day we have a houseful and many of them are vegetarians.

  • Hunting of the Wren It is unlucky to kill a wren on any day apart from Boxing Day.

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