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boxcars
noun- in horse racing, high odds US, 1934
From the high numbers used to identify railway carriages. - — San Francisco Examiner, p. 25, 3 April 1953
- — Robert Saunders Dowst and Jay Craig, Playing the Races, p. 160, 1960
- in a game of dice, a roll of two sixes US, 1949
- Abie the Jew bet the dice to win or lose, barring box cars and snake-eyes. — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 26, 1957
- — Frank Garcia, Marked Cards and Loaded Dice, p. 250, 1962
- I learned about percentage dice that are shaved to favor an ace-six–and a plentitude of snake eyes and boxcars. — Jimmy Snyder, Jimmy the Greek, p. 15, 1975
- — Thomas L. Clark, The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming, p. 25, 1987
- in poker, a pair of sixes or three sixes US
A borrowing from the game of craps. - — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 12, 1988
- any large number; a long prison sentence US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 41, 1950
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