boxholder

[ boks-hohl-der ]

noun

1. a person who has rented or subscribed for a box, as at a theatrical performance, sporting event, or the like.
2. a person entitled to receive mail in a specific post office box.

Word History and Origins

Origin of boxholder¹

box ¹ + holder

Example Sentences

It can be laser printed to make a boxholder's name appear handwritten, or stamped with an eye-fetching cancellation mark.

From Time Magazine Archive

But both he and quiet Cornelius Bliss, the boxholder who is working hardest to raise the $300,000, signified that as a mouthpiece John Erskine had overstepped his bounds.

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Sirs: H. H. HlGGINS Oxford, Ohio "Boxholder" Sirs: Reference to your issue of July 28, under the heading, "Cabinet�2�� stamps."

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Each letter carrier would have been given a bundle with orders to leave one circular at each stop on his route, because that is exactly the way we have been receiving circulars, etc. here in Northern Jersey for at least a year� all kinds of local advertising and political circulars and I recall one from a well known firm as far away as Ohio�all with no more definite address than "Boxholder" and the name of the town.

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Within less than a week I have received a circular from such a well known firm as McKesson & Robbins addressed simply "Boxholder, R. F. D. #1, Westwood, N. J."

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