Box Day—
1. (Scot.) one of the days during vacation appointed in the Court of Session on which pleading may be filed:
- Box day is a day when the courts of law being closed, lawyers and litigants can hand in papers.
2. (UK) first weekday after Christmas Day observed as a holiday:
- I’ll see Jean and her family on Box Day, but I promised Wylie next year we would have Christmas with him.
Boxing Day— = Box Day 2:
- On Christmas Day and Boxing Day all inland telegram deliveries will be suspended.