Boxing Day

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: 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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Boxing Day

noun

English Language Learners Definition of Boxing Day

chiefly British : a holiday that is celebrated especially in England and Canada on the first day after Christmas that is not a Sunday

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