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boxman

noun

boxman is spelled B-O-X-M-A-N: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, boxman means “A casino employee who supervises the craps table” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of boxman is boxmen.

How many letters and syllables are in boxman?

Letters6: B-O-X-M-A-N
In writingabout once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is boxman?

Boxman appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of boxman

  • boxmen plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does boxman mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A casino employee who supervises the craps table.

  2. 2

    Any of various types of worker who use or look after boxes.

    The boxman weighs out the amount of each size required into a weigh-box […]

  3. 3

    slangA safecracker.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does boxman come from?

From box + -man.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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