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Box braids
Box braids, or box braiding, are individual three-strand braids started from square scalp sections, usually with synthetic extensions, worn as a protective style for Afro-textured hair.
Box Car Racer
Box Car Racer: American rock side project of Blink-182's Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker, formed 2001 in San Diego with David Kennedy and Anthony Celestino; one self-titled 2002 MCA album, Billboard 200 number 12, disbanded 2003, later source of Blink-182's "Terrified."
Box Cutter (Breaking Bad)
"Box Cutter" is the season 4 premiere of Breaking Bad, in which Gus Fring kills his henchman Victor with a box cutter in the meth superlab.
Box for Buddy, Box for Star
Box for Buddy, Box for Star is the 2024 debut album by Nate Amos as This Is Lorelei, his 67th release, on Double Double Whammy; a recovery-themed indie rock and country record later issued in Deluxe and Super Deluxe editions.
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo (boxofficemojo.com) is an online box-office reporting service founded by Brandon Gray in 1999 and operated by IMDb since 2008; its 2019 IMDbPro redesign moved some data behind a paywall, distinguishing it from the free rival The Numbers.
Box-office bomb
Box-office bomb (also box-office flop): a film whose theatrical revenue fails to cover production and marketing costs. Key facts: ~2.5× budget break-even rule, 18.6% flop rate among wide releases 1999–2018, Hollywood accounting distortions.
Box-Office Bunny
Box-Office Bunny is a 1991 five-minute Looney Tunes short directed by Darrell Van Citters, the first theatrical Bugs Bunny cartoon since 1964, made for Bugs' 50th anniversary and shown with The NeverEnding Story II.
Boxcar Bertha
Boxcar Bertha (1972) is Martin Scorsese's second feature, a Roger Corman-produced AIP crime drama with Barbara Hershey and David Carradine, loosely based on Sister of the Road, shot in Arkansas.
Boxcar Willie
Boxcar Willie (Lecil Travis Martin, 1931-1999) was an American country singer in hobo costume with a train-whistle imitation; a 1981 Grand Ole Opry member whose TV-advertised King of the Road album sold over 3 million copies.
Boxer (Animal Farm)
Boxer is the loyal carthorse in Orwell's Animal Farm (1945), motto 'I will work harder', an allegory of the exploited Soviet working class, sold to the knacker after collapsing from overwork.
Boxer at Rest
Boxer at Rest, also called the Terme Boxer, is a Hellenistic bronze statue of a wounded seated boxer, unearthed in Rome in 1885 and now in the National Roman Museum.
Boxing Day
Boxing Day, December 26, is a UK and Commonwealth public holiday also called St. Stephen's Day. Named for Christmas boxes given to servants or church alms boxes, it is now marked by sales and sports, not the sport of boxing.
Boxing Helena
Boxing Helena is a 1993 American erotic thriller, the directorial debut of Jennifer Chambers Lynch, starring Julian Sands as a surgeon who keeps an amputated woman captive.
Boy (2010 film)
Boy (2010) is Taika Waititi's New Zealand comedy-drama about an 11-year-old Michael Jackson fan (James Rolleston) meeting his ex-con father in 1984; highest-grossing NZ film until Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Boy (2025 film)
Boy is a 2025 South Korean romantic crime drama directed by Lee Sang-deok, starring Seo In-guk, about two brothers running a Texas hot spring in Pogu City.
Boy (album)
Boy is U2's debut studio album, released 20 October 1980 on Island Records, produced by Steve Lillywhite at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin; an 11-track post-punk record with "I Will Follow" that peaked at 52 in the UK and 63 in the US.
Boy (autobiography)
Boy: Tales of Childhood is Roald Dahl's 1984 autobiography covering his life from birth to leaving school, including Llandaff, St Peter's, Repton, the Great Mouse Plot, Cadbury's chocolate testing, and Norway holidays; continued in Going Solo.
Boy (少年) (1969 film)
Boy (少年, Shonen) is Nagisa Oshima's 1969 Japanese film about a family living by staged car-accident scams, based on a real 1966 case; 97 minutes, Sozosha/ATG, Kinema Junpo Best Ten 3rd place, Valladolid Golden Spike winner.
Boy band
Boy band: an all-male pop vocal group of three to six young male singers who sing and dance, marketed chiefly to teenage female audiences; from Beatles-era prototypes through New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, One Direction, and K-pop acts like BTS.
Boy Better Know
Boy Better Know (BBK) is a British grime collective and independent record label founded in North London in 2005 by brothers JME and Skepta, known for its mixtape and merchandise economy, Skepta's Mercury Prize-winning Konnichiwa, and Drake signing to the label.
Boy Erased
Boy Erased: 2018 Focus Features drama directed by Joel Edgerton, adapted from Garrard Conley's memoir about a pastor's son sent to the Love in Action conversion therapy program in Memphis in 2004, starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe.
Boy Erased: A Memoir
Boy Erased: A Memoir is Garrard Conley's 2016 Riverhead Books memoir of his 2004 stay at Love in Action, a Memphis conversion therapy program, later adapted into Joel Edgerton's 2018 film.
Boy George
Boy George (George Alan O'Dowd, born 1961) is a British singer and DJ who fronted Culture Club, the New Romantic band behind "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" and "Karma Chameleon," later a solo artist, DJ, and Broadway performer.
Boy Harsher
Boy Harsher is an American electronic duo of vocalist Jae Matthews and producer Augustus Muller, making dark, danceable electro-pop with roots in darkwave and EBM.
Boy Kid Cloud
Boy Kid Cloud is the alias of Darryl Reid, a British dubstep and bass music producer from Leicester, active since 2010 and known for releases on Circus and Inspected Records.
Boy Kills World
Boy Kills World is a 2024 action comedy film directed by Moritz Mohr, in which Bill Skarsgård plays a deaf-mute martial artist trained to take revenge on the family that murdered his own.
Boy Meets Girl (band)
Boy Meets Girl: American pop duo of George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, formed Seattle 1982. Wrote Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody"; their own hit was "Waiting for a Star to Fall" (1988).
Boy Meets World
Boy Meets World: ABC TGIF coming-of-age sitcom created by Michael Jacobs and April Kelly, 1993-2000, seven seasons starring Ben Savage as Cory Matthews, with the Girl Meets World sequel.
Boy Pablo
Boy Pablo is the indie pop project of Nicolás Pablo Rivera Muñoz (born 1998, Bergen, Norway, Chilean parents). Viral via "Everytime" in 2017; EPs Roy Pablo, Soy Pablo; debut album Wachito Rico (2020) on his own label 777.
Boy Spyce
Boy Spyce is the stage name of Ugbekile David Osameke, a Nigerian Afrobeats singer from Lagos signed to Mavin Records, known for his 2022 debut EP.