boxing week

boxing week
the period after Christmas (December 25th) of a length of roughly a week to a fortnight where stores offer large discounts

Wikipedia foundation.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Boxing Week — is, at least, the six day period that starts with Boxing Day and ends with New Year s Eve. It may also include a few days before Christmas and/or after New Year s Day. It is not strictly a week. It is a term that was invented by the retail… …   Wikipedia

  • Boxing Day — Christmas box redirects here. For the genus of shrubs, see Sarcococca. Boxing Day Observed by some members and former members of the Commonwealth of Nations Type Bank holiday / Public holiday Date 26 December – Bank or public holiday …   Wikipedia

  • Boxing day — Box ing day The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night. [Eng.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Boxing News — Infobox Magazine title = Boxing News image size = 200x400 px image caption = This week s issue editor = Claude Abrams editor title = Editor frequency = Weekly circulation = category = company = London Publishing Company publisher = Newsquest… …   Wikipedia

  • boxing — boxing1 /bok sing/, n. 1. the material used to make boxes or casings. 2. a boxlike enclosure; casing. 3. an act or instance of putting into or furnishing with a box. [1510 20; BOX1 + ING1] boxing2 /bok sing/, n. the act, technique, or profession… …   Universalium

  • Boxing Day shooting — The Boxing Day shooting took place December 26, 2005 on Toronto s Yonge Street when a shootout between two youth gangs resulted in the death of a 15 year old student. Six other bystanders four men and two women were wounded. The incident took… …   Wikipedia

  • Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Light flyweight — The Light Flyweight class in the boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics competition was the lightest class. Light flyweights were limited to those boxers weighing less than 48 kilograms.MedalistsResults32TeamBracket Compact NoSeeds R1 = Round of 32… …   Wikipedia

  • White Collar Boxing — is a form of boxing where men and women in white collar professions train to fight at special events. Most have no previous experience of boxing. US origins of the sportThe sport first came to prominence in mid 1990s New York. Many professional… …   Wikipedia

  • Fight of the Week — After NBC s cancellation of The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports in the spring of 1960, ABC took over the prime time boxing program, although it was renamed as the Fight of the Week . Legendary boxing commentator Don Dunphy did the blow by blow… …   Wikipedia

  • Don King (boxing promoter) — Don King Don King Born August 20, 1931 (1931 08 20) (age 80) Cleveland, Ohio, USA Nationality …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”