Box and Bust

Box

Box noun - A hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument.
Usage example: the vicious bully delivered a box to the child's ear
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Synonyms for Box

Bust is a synonym for box (North American) in attack topic. In some cases you can use "Bust" instead the word "Box" as a noun or a verb, when it comes to topics like slap, boff. informal substitute

Nearby Word: boxed

Bust

Bust noun - A hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument.
Usage example: delivered a bust to the boxer's chops

Box is a synonym for bust in attack topic. Sometimes you can use "Box" instead the word "Bust" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as slap.

Nearby Words: busted, buster, busting

How words are described

nice nice box nice bust
special special box special bust
long long box long bust
similar similar box similar bust
Other adjectives: normal, complete, original, heavy, small, massive, large, big, enormous, huge, wrong, pretty, new, smaller, wide, pink, giant, bigger.

Common collocations

way box way bust way
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