SINCE 1828
Boxing Day
nounDefinition of Boxing Day
: the first weekday after Christmas observed as a legal holiday in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and marked by the giving of Christmas boxes to service workers (such as postal workers)
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The first known use of Boxing Day was in 1747
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