diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 16ebcbe2..5e3c1205 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ where the formatting is also better._
 - Improved horizontal legend spacing, as well as multicolumn legend support. A
   new example in the "Tips & tricks" vignettes demonstrates the latter.
   (#446 @grantmcdermott)
+- Univariate boxplots (without grouping variable) are now handled in
+  `tinyplot.default()`, so that `tinyplot(x, type = "boxplot")` and
+  `tinyplot(~ x, type = "boxplot")` essentially produce the same output as
+  `boxplot(x)`. (#454 @zeileis)
 
 ### Internals
 
diff --git a/R/tinyplot.R b/R/tinyplot.R
index caa70a05..e9137ad9 100644
--- a/R/tinyplot.R
+++ b/R/tinyplot.R
@@ -762,6 +762,11 @@ tinyplot.default = function(
       if (is.null(ylab)) ylab = "Density"
     } else if (type == "function") {
       if (is.null(ylab)) ylab = "Frequency"
+    } else if (type == "boxplot") {
+      y = x
+      x = rep.int("", length(y))
+      xlab = ""
+      xaxt = "a"
     } else if (!(type %in% c("histogram", "barplot"))) {
       y = x
       x = seq_along(x)