boxing day

1. 1.

   first weekday after Christmas

   Broaderlegal holiday

   Part ofChristmas

   United Kingdom

Questions about boxing day

What does boxing day mean?

boxing day means "first weekday after Christmas".

Is boxing day a common word?

boxing day is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.